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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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:

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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,

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
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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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All ideas

    Snapshot Pattern Selector in IBM BPM/BAW Process Designer

    ProblemCurrently, when creating snapshots in IBM BAW, users manually enter snapshot names. This can lead to:- Inconsistent naming conventions- Difficulty in tracking versions- Errors in deployment pipelines Proposed SolutionIntroduce a Snapshot Pa...
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Color seperation on the Blueprint's flowlines on BWL pdf exports

    Currently it is really difficult to use the current flowchart export to present a process to the customers stakeholders. They request something such as different colors so they can use the pdf export to easily differentiate.
    over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

    Allow Knowledge Base V2 to be started with no initial Excel upload

    In current state the user has to download sample kb from documentation, cleanse it, then reupload it to get a fresh start. This should be automatic
    over 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Search for processes by user/editor name

    I repeatedly get asked the question, how can I search for a group of processes a specific person wrote/edited? We need this information for a variety of reasons, such as: - when someone leaves, seeing which processes they created and edited, so ...
    about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    Add support for decision trees in ODM Business Console

    Decision trees can be a convenient way to define and group business rules that are sharing some conditions, but not most of them (when all or most conditions are shared, then decision tables are better suited) Decision tree editor is not available...
    over 5 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    UserInfoCache reset mechanism should be optimized

    Every time after change FullName parameter in AD system calls reset of UserInfoCache. This operation generates thousands of DB queries (select t0.USER_ID,t0.USER_NAME,t0.FULL_NAME,t0.PROVIDER,t0.USER_STATE,t0.LAST_STATE_MODIFIED from LSW_USR_XREF ...
    about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Provide a way inside case builder or in the backend to copy a case activity and its underlying process

    We would like to copy the sub activity of a case Type and create a new sub activity with different name to it.
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Target position in view after following linked activity/event

    When following a message event link or clicking the "This process is linked from..." link at the top of the blueprint after navigating a linked process or even if following a URL that includes a direct link to an activity, Blueworks Live should po...
    over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

    Any additional function in utility jars will not be available if not creating new service flow on WebPD

    On WebPD, any additional function in same utility jars will not be available if not creating new service flow on WebPD. WebPD works different from Process Designer from this perspective. The WebPD working way does not reasonable and effective. It ...
    about 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Global session timeout across all CP4BA components

    Session timeout has to be configured in each CP4BA components but this must be done individually with the risk of having inconsistent session durations. It should be possible to configure a global session duration at the operator level to ensure t...
    about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Not under consideration

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