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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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JS API - Updating instance variables is missing from JS API.

Updating instance variables is missing from JS API. TWInstance.businessData.put("xyz", "123") has no effect.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

JS API - Claim Task is missing from JS API

Claim Task is missing from JS API. Only reassignTo() is available, which always succeeds, even though the task may be claimed by someone else. Add Task.claim(TWUser).
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Testability - make environmental variables instance scoped

Make environment variables instance-scoped instead of application-scoped, to allow for easier mocking/stubbing of external services.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

WebPD support for refactor/rename

Refactor/rename was supported in Desktop Designer. When will it be added for WebPD?
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

WebPD Directly link to individual assets (services, process definitions, human services etc) via URL

Simplify collaboration by being able to send link to what you are working on. Increased productivity
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

WebPD javascript files editable through browser

Make added javascript files to a process application editable through the browser, currently you have to download and reupload the file. Would also be great if other filetypes could be previewed.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The Process Summary is a really awesome feature in Blueworks! But, the "print" option is limited and could be much better.

The Process Summary is a really awesome feature in Blueworks! But, the "print" option is limited and could be much better. Why not include it in the available exports? - Word, as a page- PowerPoint, as a slide- Excel, as a tab- Print, allow select...
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Documentation sources are very inadequate

Documentation sources are very inadequate. Most of the links to resources found through search engines are broken. This puts us in a really difficult situation. This is a big waste of time and motivation.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0

As a project creator (developer), I should be the "creator" of my project in any runtime environments (test, production) no matter who deploys it offline

There are many automation projects published in the CP4BA production environment in IBM CIO Office. The centralized BAW admin team has been deploying all BAW projects to the CP4BA production environment offline on behalf of all project teams for t...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to Control the Order of Lists such as Hyperlinks Associated with Policies

Currently there is no way to control the order of lists like hyperlinks associated with policies. They only appear in reverse order that they are added.
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration