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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).


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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,

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  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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BlueWorks Inbound Process Links

The 'start task' (circle) in a process map should show links to all processes that can invoke the process (i.e. the list of processes that are currently listed in the 'where used' feature) in the same way as 'linked processes'. The exports (partic...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Not under consideration

Build full diagrammatic interchange capability in line with BPMN 2.0 specifications

Build full diagrammatic interchange capability in line with BPMN 2.0 specifications
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Multiple business logs in BAWoC

ONS now have several BAW projects running in parallel in BAWoC. However, the only log file that can be used for debugging purposes is the underlying WAS stdout log, exposed via the System Operations Live Log Viewer in the BAWoC / DBA console.. Thi...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add Configuration Option to Only Keep a Finite Number of History Versions

Every time a decision model is saved, a new version is created, and there are currently no automated ways to delete old or unneeded versions. This is also true for ODM artifacts.
almost 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Work Page Inbasket Filter window(popup) to allow "Enter" Key to OK(submit) instead of having to scroll down to the bottom of the window to hit and to run the filter.

We are getting a lot of user request to have Case Manager Inbasket Filter window allow Enter Key to OK instead of having to scroll down to the bottom of the window to hit and to run the filter. As there are longer and longer list of filter paramet...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Need an option to define virtual categories

We have a use case to split a ruleset into multiple rulesets to reduce the complexity and also to execute the multiple rulesets in parallel and asyc based on the requirement for the same category. We will execute the rulesets for the same checkpoi...
almost 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Not under consideration

Move Numbering Boxes So They Do Not Cover Arrow Tips on Process Flows

Adding the Auto Numbering function to a diagram will often result in the number boxes covering up the tip of an arrow on the process diagram. This makes it difficult to see the direction of the flow.
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Allow Playback to Repeat Steps

The Playback function does not allow you to repeat activities, so we cannot use it when an exception path on a map takes you back to repeat an activity. This is a common feature of processes in most fields. We would like to be able to walkthrough ...
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Rule Artefact count per Service/Project rather than for the whole instance

Can the Rule Artefact Count in the Decision Center Diagnostics page be made to show aggregated totals per Decision Service rather than only for the whole instance? For both the on premises and on cloud versions of ODM.
over 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

MS Word Export Improvements

MS Word export has several improvement opportunities which I will consolidate into this ticket as follows: 1) Decision Model and Matrix option to include this within the exported MS Word documentation 2) Legend needs to be captured with included m...
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 5 Not under consideration