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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

All ideas

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Automatic sign-off behavior for unattended bot runners should be configurable.

Currently, the host machine is returned to the state it was previously in when the unattended bot runner completes its task. It would be helpful if this was configurable. For example if we want the bot to sign on to the host machine, and then leav...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to Add a Property Tab (i.e. Opportunities) Next to Current Tabs, Details, Problems, Policies etc.

Currently you can add additional "properties" within the "Details" tab behind a task. However, you can't:1. Add a stand alone property tab next to Details, Problems, Policies, Documentation etc.2. Move added "properties" within the "Details" tab t...
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 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...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Import WAL scripts into RPA Studio

At the moment, RPA Studio does not allow users to import scripts that are not stored in a file not formatted as a wal file. As for now, I can paste code that I have in an external file into a new one that I create in RPA Studio. Once the code is i...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Future consideration

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

XSRF-TOKEN cookie should be HTTP Only

The XSRF-TOKEN cookie does not have the "HttpOnly" attribute set. Using this attribute helps to prevent client-side Javascript from accessing the cookie, thereby mitigating one of the most common XSS exploit scenarios. Unless the application re...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future 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

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.
almost 2 years ago in Automation Document Processing 0 Future consideration

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