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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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Long list of data objects available to build a guided rule

We use around five to eight data objects per rule and we need to browse them in the extensive list available. Also, the names appear similar, and it confuses the user.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Not under consideration

Add POP3 Support to IBM RPA

A customer has a bunch on linux servers and they use the POP3 servers on these machines to orchestrate them. They are aware of the fact that this is no future-proof solution but it will not change soon. In order to automate these mechanisms RPA wo...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Wire labels could be better positioned

When developing services wires are used to connect various activities. These wires often have labels when leaving Coaches to quicky identify which View is triggering boundery event. These labels are currently a mess because (I think) they ar...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Feature to drag execution line to a previous execution line

Since we already have the ability to change variable value during execution, moving the cursor to a previous line after having its value changed would be very helpful for debugging purposes.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Admin User List Reports Membership in Groups

Admins should have the ability in the user list to see where the users have been active, if that user is in any groups and what spaces they have permissions in.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

The item display panel on the right is not interactive. However, it can be focused with a keyboard Tab

Only interactive elements should receive keyboard focus. If the panel requires tabindex property for focus managemet purpose, use tabindex="-1" instead. TS012499507
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Content overlap and horizontal scrolling is triggered when zoomed up to 200%

Ensure content and functionality is retained when viewed on mobile breakpoint. There should not be content loss, overlap or horizontal scrolling when page is zoomed at 200% TS012511136
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The Add button is placed at the start of the form. Users have to tab backwards to trigger the button when they complete entering the data

Place the button after the form TS012511147
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

The "Advanced search" heading is not coded with a heading

Code the main heading of a modal dialog using h2 TS012511154
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Dropdown form controls such as "Case type", "Match criteria" etc are not programatically associated to the input in focus. When focusing on the component using JAWS screen reader, the label is not announced

Ensure the element on focus is programatically associated using aria-labelledby property. TS012511161
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration