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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).


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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:

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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,

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  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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Configuration self service for application configurations

IID supports adding promotable properties to applications, these can be configured from was console. One can also create resource environment properties that can be configured from was console. The admin interface currently supports only configuri...
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

add more details for caller task like task ID or caller process instance id when calling Ajax service

add more details for caller task like task ID or caller process instance id when calling Ajax service i have already raised it to IBM on case TS007915309, i was informed that this feature is not available if you are calling a service flow using Aj...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Apply password expiration policy in IBM RPA

A password expiration policy is very important and requested by many customers who have external auditing. One suggestion is for the user to be notified and required to change their password every 90 days.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Blueworks Change Request

We would like to include the Item numbers in all of the data tabs.
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Export process to PDF from space view

In a space when looking at the list of all the process blueprints, you can easily export the process to PowerPoint, Word, and Excel without going into the process blueprint except PDF. Please add an option to export to PDF from the space view
almost 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Ability to the operator to support affinity for specific architecture type

The CP4BA operator currently has an affinitySelector that matches both amd64 AND s90x requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution: nodeSelectorTerms: - matchExpressions: - key: beta.kubernetes.io/arch operator: In values: - amd64 - s390x The re...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Option to deactivate email notification for expiring password

We would like to request for an option to deactivate the e-mail notification about a password that is expiring. We have some individuals who do not want to receive the e-mail notification as they are not frequent users of Blueworks. Instead of the...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Enhance the Product feature - Roster dashboard in team performance

I am Adrien, leading IQA implementation all over our HSBC Wholesales teams, so far having already deployed more than 20 IQA instances. I would like to raise a a product requirement that I believe would greatly benefit your customers, starting with...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Allow precision values for Custom numeric dropdown

IBM Blueworks live allows users to define a custom numeric property . However there is no specification on the precision of the property . Currently the platform allows users to enter 9 digit long number. We have a business requirement that needs...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Add task (latest) case and task comments as a selectable system properties for in-basket and case summary

Often users work from in-baskets in the Work tab of Navigator, instead of utilizing the Case tab. (Sad, but true.) Consequently they wish to understand the overall state and have requested a custom comment or status field, which we then have creat...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration