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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

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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

Prevent users to access BPM Process Admin

We would like to prevent non-admin users from accessing Process Admin Console. Can you add this functionality/enhancements in BAW future versions?
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

close all windows

um comando que feche todas a janelas abertas independente de seletores.
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

run time window

semelhante ao AA, estuda a possibilidade de no modo agendar ter uma janela de acompanhamento do bot que esta sendo executado.
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

comando limpar

seria de grande ajuda o IBM RPA ter um comando de limpar campos.
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Support for Bulgarian document to be exported as doc/docs format using the OCR_A engine

The customer wants to use the OCR_A engine to OCR documents and save them as Word documents. The function is available in the product but not officially supported.
about 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

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