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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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View on the dates of the process

When filtering for a single practice, it would be useful to see the timestamp of individual activities in the model page in order to avoid to download a CSV to do analysis on the individual case.
over 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Functionality already exists

change name of regex patten on regex builder

currently we can't change name of regex pattern on regex builder. developer should be able to cahnge name of regex patten. detailed steps are as follows. launch IBM RPA Studio. open regex builder from Tools > Regular Expression Builder click a...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Not under consideration

Move Processes and Tasks from One Installation to Another

Need an option for move completed instances and tasks from one installation to another (ex: CP4BA)
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow Functionality already exists

Enhance display documents in current Window when using open configuration option to display the documents as separate tabs for Filenet.

Enhance current Navigator desktop configuration option 'When using the Open and Preview actions, display documents in the current window' to open all the selected documents as separate tabs in the current Window, including the Daeja Virtual Viewer...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator Future consideration

CHDBPrune tool to support Case State property

Currently, CHDBPrune tool only take string value. An OOTB Case State provided by Case Manager is using integer instead of string. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/case-manager/5.3.3?topic=comibmcasemgmtapiconstants-casestate It would be great if CHDBPr...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Delete Snapshots and Orphan Toolkits

Too many steps necessary to do housekeeping and managing the complex BPM applications that Commerzbank is deploying e.g. to delete a snapshot you first have to fire a REST call to get all snapshot names from the application... then you have to che...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Enhance the Powerpoint process report

PLEASE SEE ENCLOSED DOCUMENT WITH SCREEN CAPTURES The current PowerPoint reporting method has some specific limitations:1/Any sub process with more than 8 activities does not fit onto the slide  2/The process map image is presented in the viewing ...
about 9 years ago in Blueworks Live Not under consideration

Change the icon of the deactivated schedules on Projects

For now the strip icon is too thin and it's almost imperceptible when the schedule is activated or not. To improve visualization, this strip could be enlarged and this would resolve this issue or change the color of the deactivated to red instead ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Future consideration

Visible indicator that Rule Documentation has been set

When browsing to a rule in Decision Center, the Documentation section is not visible. It is hidden behind a click on the Details button.. Nothing draws the attention of the rule writer to the fact that there actually is some relevant snippet of do...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Need to have Multi Factor Authentication in BPM

In BPM, we need multi factor authentication for improved security as a part of compliance
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration