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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

All ideas

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Create a unique id (rule id) for each rule when it is created and support search, query functionalities on that

Create a unique id (rule id) for each rule when it is created and support search, query functionalities on the rule id.
almost 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Expose only intersection list of BOM variables when multiple categories are chosen for a rule

Expose only intersection list of BOM variables for the rule writing when multiple categories are chosen for a rule
almost 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

IBM BAW - Providing a Process Portal search index command to re-index only active process instances and open tasks

providing a Process Portal search index command to re-index only active process instances and open tasks in IBM Business Automation Workflow
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Combining Purging procedures in IBM Business Automation Workflow for Indexing & Instances

IBM Business Automation Workflow Customer requirement is to combining the BPMProcessInstancesPurge command and the indexTablesCleanup command into one operation to avoid two steps and eliminate downtime
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Delete functionality using Keyboard

Now to delete any elements in BWL (e.g. Activity, Gateway, Events) we have to right click to use "Delete" option. It will be helpful and useful when "Delete" icon in the keyboard can be used for any deletion functionality. Please check and conside...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

To have activity numbered in the Analyse and Playback mode

Currently we have the option to “Show Activity Numbering” in the process map which is not available in Analyse and Playback mode. The requirement is to freeze the activity number that is enabled in the process map for other functionality including...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

DE: Implement auto exception handler to handle rule action exceptions

Decision Engine, today provides an auto exception handler that handles the condition exceptions and continues the rule execution with the next condition, but it doesn't support action exceptions. We want auto exception handler support for action e...
almost 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

CyberArk intergration with IBMBPM for password management

As many of the application teams are trying to integrate their application with cyberArk for password management but current IBMBPM version is not supporting cyberArk integration with direct and indirect JNDI approach. Please find SR we opend for ...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enable Partitioning for BPM / BAW table CONTENTS

Problem raised with IBM as Case number TS003756070 We are using Db2 as the database to back BPM and BAW. The largest table CONTENTS has grown to 2Tb and will continue to grow because we do not have an archiving strategy in place for the contents t...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 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 ...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration