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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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Rearrange linked items (policies, processes, etc.) by dragging and placing in the correct order

Rearranging linked items by dragging would save time. For example, you have an activity box that links to 10 processes and those processes are arranged alphabetically to find them easily. If you add a new process and then realphabetize, you would ...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

The RFE is for a gRPC service end point make it available at Decision Server Run time POD or make it as a separate service end point.

The use case is to wrap the XOM objects and send to Rule Engine as binary objects from client side. ODM used to provide a remote EJB support with older versions and we are looking for a similar service pattern on ODM on cloud. It is not necessary ...
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Add in capability for customized process scoring like your CBM.ai tool and heatmapping

There are many links between IBM's CBM.ai (Component Business Model) tool and BWL. Combining them would provide a more comprehensive process view to your users driving efficiencies and visibility gains. We leveraged CBM.ai to develop 17 criteria t...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Adding a field to capture projects and associated value/effort/budget fields

We are leveraging BWL to show our value streams and L2 PCF process groups in a single Discovery View and using the task data tabs to capture a high-level overview of our landscape. Having a field to capture projects (like the problems section but ...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

BPM WSConnector component gives wrong perception of bad performance in Process Monitor

Our customer uses IBM BPM for their daily Process Management operations. To adhere to the SLAs and to ensure optimal performance, the customer uses the out of the box Process Monitor in the Process Admin console to view a summary of the most expen...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

zero downtime patching

it is now critical that downtime for upgrades or patches is either scheduled within a tighter timeframe or done away with altogether, and done to a timescale that is specific and helpful to the United Kingdom
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Request for enhancement on BPM saved Search function

Based on current saved search feature, user can create saved searches without specify any application name, and this caused the saved search performance slow issue and also impact performance on DB level. So we request enhancement to add mandatory...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Option to automatically activate as default even if no instances

In PC when deploying apps to PS, would be a nice feature to have the option to automatically make default the new deplyed snapshot even if the app has no processes, or on the PS are no active instances.Now if you deploy a new snapshot that has no ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BWL Custom Color Palette Enhancements

The custom color palette has to be created and updated by an Admin user (so, someone in Chris & Jamil’s organization) A custom color palette will only show colors to which a label has been assigned. There is no option to select only the colors...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under consideration