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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 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
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...

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Arabic text format issue in IBM BAW

User logs into Process Portal to perform the task, after claiming the task user try to copy and past the Arabic content with number , while pasting the content in UI number is automatically moved to left before Arabic text. Expected behavior is Ar...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Allow images (that's stored in a SharePoint and added to Documentation with a link) to appear in Word Doc export

Our company does not have a public repository or SharePoint where we can store images/docs. Because we have used all the storage space in BWL before, a SharePoint has been set up to act as a repository for images and documentations. Users get a li...
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Japanese support for Automation Document Processing (ADP)

Automation Document Processing (ADP) is new capture solution on Cloud Pak for Business Automation. Its AI-OCR capability could be very competitive in Japanese market, but it does not support Japanese yet.
about 1 year ago in Automation Document Processing 0 Future consideration

provide more KPI thresholds

For now you can set 3 levels for KPI thresholds and these are coloured red-yellow-green. It would helpful if we were able to define and configure more levels and the colours used for display.
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Future consideration

It is recommended to provide one-button degradation function

After upgrading CP4BA, if the environment cannot be used due to serious BUG, we hope to provide one-button degradation function. For example, after I upgraded 21.03.ifix16 to ifix17, there was a serious bug that caused the production environment t...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Is a defect

AW-ProcessCenter-Snapshot-Process(BPMN),匯出檔案缺少<bpmndi:BPMNDiagram>資料無法以BPMN viewer查看,建議加上

在導出BPMN時缺少<bpmndi:BPMNDiagram>這部分內容,而這部分內容正是渲染所必須的。 Translation - This part of <bpmndi:BPMNDiagram> is missing when exporting BPMN, and this part of content is necessary for rendering.
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Display current webservice endpoint information

In the ProcessAdmin, If user doesn't input the "override endpoint" field, he won't know what current endpoint is. It doesn't make sense that user needs to go back the authoring environment to check what current value is for runtime. The product sh...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Include customizable gamification framework integrated into Cloud Pak for Business Automation

Looking at gamification, there is currently no standard and research shows individual perspectives rather than implementation steps or best practices. The sooner IBM claims this flag, the further ahead we'll be from any other future competitors. A...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Allow ADP use a GitHub Repo classified as "Internal" for it's repositoroes.

Our organization doesn't allow "Public" GitHub Repo's and currently, per support ADP only supports connecting to a "Public" repo during initial configuration.
over 1 year ago in Automation Document Processing 0 Future consideration

Extend ICM Operations to set Creator based on parameter

Provide the ability to set the Creator when using ICM_Operations such as createDiscretionaryTaskWithProps and addCommentToCurrentTask. Currently, the Creator is always the system user configured for the JAAS User Name on the Component Queue. Attem...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration