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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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WebClient - Open links on new tabs

In this new interface of the WebClient I can't open links on new tabs using the scroll button (or right clicking). Being able to open links on new tabs improves the user experience a lot since all the filters and ordering applied won't be lost if ...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Is a defect

Cache scripts before starting execution

IBM RPA seems to download the script from the cloud every time an Invoke Script is used, which occasionally leads to execution errors due to network instability (failing to download the script). Probably a better approach would be to cache all nee...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Enable the Swimlanes on both sides of the process map for better scrolling

When the process map is too large and needs scrolling from left to right, it could be very useful to have the swimlanes on both sides so we know who the action lies with in the process.
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Hashtag Feature in BlueworksLive

Team,We want to implement the hashtag feature in BlueworksLive. Currently we are utilizing the hashtag feature to enable process search. We want to expand the capability to enable us to click on the hash tag to highlight the related processes and ...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 5 Future consideration

Blueworks supports iOS browsers or provides a mobile app

Blueworks to support browsers on Apple iOS devices, specifically iPhone and iPads. Alternative a Blueworks mobile app should be provided for iPhone and iPad devices.
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Conversion utility needs to support additional types

BPM 8.6 provides a utility to convert deprecated items to newer types (for example, converting General System Services to Service Flows). However, the current utility does not support all item types, especially older ones. For example items of typ...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Add write_http plug-in into container images for monitoring

The write_http is must have for my cusomer in Filenet migration 5.5.4 when configuring the monitoring for sending PCH data to Broadcom APM. Here are a response from dev team reqarding this request ************ At the moment, our container images a...
about 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration

View team member's task statuses in Work view style

Work view is a task list where all available tasks to a user are displayed.This is a good view to display all tasks at a glance.My customer requests that:1. User's manager can view team member's task statuses in the view. Team member's statuses ca...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Requesting that Session Timeout Send Users to Login Page

Currently the session timeout in the Decision Center and Decision Server UIs only sends the user to the login page on the first request they make after their session expires. We're requesting that the UIs automatically move the users to the login ...
about 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Functionality already exists

in Business Console, for a decision service replace the linked projects view with a dependency tree view

In the business console we would benefit from having a dependency tree showing each project and branch with quick access to change a dependency. We have a linked projects view that shows dependency on project but it does not show the branch of the...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration