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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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Document Explorer control with Linked Drop Downs

We have an Integration with the IBM BPM System Version 8.5.7 and the IBM File Net System version 5.2.0.2 for managing the documents. All Folders created / documents uploaded into the BPM Application Screens get created/uploaded into File Net appli...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

IBM BPM Folder Creation using Document Explorer Control

We are having and Integration with IBM BPM 8.5.7 and IBM File Net5.2.0.2. All Folders created Or documents uploaded in BPM are eventually Created/stored in Filenet. In the BPM Screen we are using the Document Explorer control. Our Requirement is w...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

Have Process Portal display business data for all elements on teh work list

The Heritage Portal allowed the user to press the down arrow button next to the search entry field to display the business data associated with the instances on the list for ALL the instances that display. The Process Portal does not have the func...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Process Monitor Data for Exporting

Export Process Monitor data into csv or xls for reporting.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Export Decision Table from Decision Diagram to Word

When exporting a decision diagram to word, the decision table under the decision tab is not included in the.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Add default OCR setting to Studio

when we use OCR-related commands,We have to select the engine and language each time. Since each user basically uses the same engine and language, this task seems very complicated. Therefore, it would be easier to use the tool if there had opti...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Add support for .heic formatted files to the Navigator viewer

We have users who are storing photos from their IOS devices in their native format which is: image/heic, image/heif Can the virtual viewer support that format? They do open in Windows Photo Viewer.
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

BAW generated DDL is not z/OS DB compliant

Issue #3 DDL format is not for DB2 z/OS: Source DDL generated doesn't conform as required by standard DSNTEP2 (a program on mainframe- provided by IBM with DB2) . If we had a custom DSNTEP2 that supported longer line length that would alleviate th...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

See exposed items from nested toolkits on process app settings page

The process app settings page shows exposed items form the process app and its toolkits, but does not include those from nested toolkits (only directly dependent toolkits are taken into account). When having a large number of nested toolkits, this...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add DayOfTheWeek to the DateTime properties

This idea is to add a way for IBM RPA to provide the day of the week based on a data or datetime variable. Currently the properties for the datetime variable in IBM RPA give you: Hour, Minute, Second, Milliesecond, TimeOfDay, Year. Having DayOfWee...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration