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Digital Business Automation Ideas


This is an IBM Automation portal for Digital Business Automation products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Please use the following category to raise ideas for these offerings for all environments (traditional on premises, containers, on cloud):
  • Cloud Pak for Business Automation - including Business Automation Studio and App Designer, Business Automation Insights

  • Business Automation Workflow (BAW) - including BAW, Business Process Manager, Workstream Services, Business Performance Center, Advanced Case Management

  • Content Services - FileNet Content Manager

  • Content Services - Content Manager OnDemand

  • Content Services - Daeja Virtual Viewer

  • Content Services - Navigator

  • Content Services - Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files

  • Content Services - Content Collector for SAP

  • Content Services - Enterprise Records

  • Content Services - Content Manager (CM8)

  • Datacap

  • Automation Document Processing

  • Automation Decision Services (ADS)

  • Operational Decision Manager

  • Robotic Process Automation

  • Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

  • Blueworks Live

  • Business Automation Manager Open Edition

  • IBM Process Mining


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.


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Pinned ideas

PINNED SQL statements in Dashboard Widgets
I think using SQL statements in widgets would be great to leverage the entire potential of the data uploaded to IBM Process Mining. Lots of important and helpful information cannot be displayed today as it's only SQL-like. I don't think that using...
PINNED Filter UI enables having OR between filters (not just AND)
Users want to filter cases for client1 OR client2. They can't without creating a custom filter with javascript -- which they don't like at all

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Improve Search

The search is limited in a few important aspects. First, viewers do not have the same search capabilities as Editors and Contributors. Second, the search API functions differently than the search in the user interface. The API is limited to a sing...
almost 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Remove this issue on future versions.. Cannot attach

I often come across with this error: Cannot attach 'main.wal' to debugger 'net.pipe://localhost/debugger/2/6904/1' I have this message right after an system exception while debugging. After that error it cannot be ran anything, until you close and...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Is a defect

Enable logging of deployer's username/ip when deploying ruleapps via RES console or Rule Designer

Our distributed team has several specialists responsible for developing and deploying rule apps to Production and Test environments. We do not use Decision Center. Our team deploys rule apps directly through RES Console. Currently there's no way t...
over 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

BAW Content Management - Ability to update document properties using JS API while using addVersion() method or a separate JS API

We currently using LiveConnect API to invoke Java packages from JavaScript to perform document property updates. LiveConnect feature is deprecated from BAW 19 version. We are trying to use .addDocument(String type , String name , String fileLocati...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

RES Console to support security config per multiple exec servers

This issue has become urgent as USAA failed a Security Audit, due to ODM RES security limitation. Customer has 5 Rule Execution Servers, each pertaining to different business partners. RuleApps for all 5 exec servers are configured to a single RES...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Repairing the "Mouse Command" Activity more specially "Point" parameter

I come across that this activity its not actually working as expected and I made a simple module to recalcuate the screen resolution. Its worth it if there is not avaiable selectors.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Is a defect

View process blueprints in a space as list view

In a space that has multiple process blueprints that have long names, it's difficult to see what the full name is unless you hover your mouse over it. It would be great if there was an option to view the process blueprints as a list so that it's e...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Project specific modify access should work to publish rule changes from rule designer to Decision center

Today the user who wants to publish the changes from Rule Designer to Decision Center need the administrator role which gives full access to all the projects in the decision center which is a security issue. Users with create/modify/delete access ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Improve Studio UI for multiple screens

In Studio, when we drag 2nd script as new window, it doesn't provide panels like Toolbox, Variables, Output. Aim is to have multiple Studio windows on separate monitors. As we can run script only from beginning, we usually copy few lines from main...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

REST API to handle invitation expiration / resend

There are no REST API for handling the invited user.An API to retrieve the list of expired invitation + expiration date, + a REST API to resend the invitation + a REST API to delete the invited user would help account administrators handling huge ...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration