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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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Output ID of email messages in the Read Email command

It is useful to correctly identify emails. Consider this use case: the process has multiple steps, and the first one is to read emails and get attachments, then do some processing on the files and lastly go back to the email and reply to that spec...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

BAW Create a new BPM Project Application or Toolkit Branch from scripting command

It is possible to create a new Project Application or Toolkit Branch (aka Track) from the BPM classic Workflow Center console, as described in the product Knowledge Center: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS8JB4_20.x/com.ibm.wbpm.admin...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improve conformance to WCAG 2.1

WCAG Compliancy is a government requirement. Current non-compliancy does limit product acceptance, negatively impacts solution valuation. Dutch government entities do test all her applications against WCAG before go-live. Several non-compliancy f...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

Improve the visuals and definitions for when using custom assignment

The downside now is the "where used" functionality, so our improvement idea could probably be changed to "Improve the visuals and definitions for when using custom assignment". For us the best solution, instead of using custom, would be if there e...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Future consideration

Conflicting exposed business data-types should result in warnings in Process Designer

When making variables in a process visible in Process Portal (exposing them) Web Process Designer should show a warning that the variable will result in a conflict on the server, and as such should be avoided if possible. A simple check against th...
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

Support to run Content Manager OnDemand in Ubuntu

We have a large customer that their standard is Ubuntu for Linux and they have to go through a tedius process to run in another Linux platform. I have to believe that there are other customers that will benefit from this support. With out the supp...
about 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

Web version of IBM RPA Studio

Web interface for IBM RPA studio for SAAS to facilitate anytime anywhere access
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Support saving of excel in xlsb format

The capability to support saving of excel in xlsb format to facilitate storage and transfer.
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Bot execution history navigation

The bot execution history or logs extraction requires quite a few clicks or navigation to extract that information. The customer's requirement is to provide a easier and faster navigation to the execution history as during testing, frequent retrie...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration