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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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Do not close browse window in Outlook Plug-in when opening and closing an archived mail

As a user I want to open an archived mail. From Outlook, I open the ICN Outlook-Plugin browse window, navigate through the folder structure to my archived mail and open in. The mail is opened in a separate Outlook-Window and in the background (in ...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Loop detection. Rules loops that cause memory overloads should shut down gracefully

When creating a rules project that calls another rules project, but accidentally gets called back you end up in an endless loop. This loop causes a memory overflow which crashes the server. It would be better if an error is thrown so that the deve...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 2 Not under consideration

Can we add Risk name and description in metadata along with its severity which is already an existing feature

If we can include risk name and description in metadata then every time we extract the process and activity from bluworks it would be readily available for analysis of process improvement. It can help the analyst to have all the required informati...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Streamline Key Creation via Wizard

A nice to have feature would be to embed some functionality to generate public and private certs into the tenant configuration tab of the web portal. This would allow an administrator to download a public and private key. It would NOT replace the ...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

allow export of application group to exclude export of applications

we try to keep our environments clean and only contain objects that are needed in that specific environment. We we like a check box on the application group export function that would allow us to turn off export of applications to the destination ...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Close browser/ Close process improvement

It was verified that the commands "Close browser" and "Close Process" does not work in all scenarios, there are some cases that they don't work as intended. The browser and/or process kept running. As a workaround, the command taskkill /f /im chro...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

We need to handle deactivate condition cell merging on download decision table from DC

Right now in IBM ODM "We do not handle deactivate condition cell merging on download decision table, only processing it after re-upload in DC". It's good if IBM can provide deactivate condition cell merging on download also.
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

"teamworks.Mail" allows "," as a part of file name of several attachment files.

"teamworks.Mail" don't allows "," as a part of file name of several attachment files. If "teamworks.Mail" is able to use "," as a character in the file name, it will improve the convenience of using "teamworks.Mail".
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

We are looking for type ahead search feature in Single select control of BPM UI toolkit for IBM Business Process Manager vers

We are looking for type ahead search feature in Single select control of BPM UI toolkit for IBM Business Process Manager version 8.5.7.201706
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

We are looking for date time control of BPM UI toolkit for IBM Business Process Manager version 8.5.7.201706

We are looking for date time control of BPM UI toolkit for IBM Business Process Manager version 8.5.7.201706 should allow user to type the date and move to next field using Tab key. The calendar shouldn't auto-populated on focus of the date time c...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release