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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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Support all OOTB business objects in external REST service

Data types like ECMID from BAW toolkit are not supported for external exposed REST services. This is a limitation which forces to do business object remapping to cloned structure without these OOTB data types. It would be beneficial to also allow ...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

In the Analysis, provide the count of handoffs between swimlanes in the Process Map.

The number of handoffs, between participants or systems, is a metric for reduction and improvement in Lean analysis. A count of the handoffs is indicated by the change from one participant to another and is shown graphically in flow from one swiml...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Process App for multiple Blueprints

It would be very useful if you could use a Process App for multiple Blueprints by one click – for example. Currently only one Blueprint can be connected to a Process App and this is a big limitation.
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Increase Word Document Information (Approval table and cover)

We are using "Process App" to launch process validation workflows.We can see the approval status in the "Work History" of each blueprint (Click on "Select a view or action for this process" > "View Work History") We would like to include in our...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Facility to add config file in parameters in control room

Control center acts as the web interface with which a business user can control and monitor the execution of a bot without having to change a bot for few user input changes. Most of the bots use a config file which is translated in the bot to read...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Expand Word Footer to at least 150 characters

Expand word footer to at least 150 characters.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Document Explorer Configuration

TS000810394 I add a document via the Content Integration Task with the following options:- Server: IBM BPM document store- Option name: Create documentIn this case the parameter 'Folder ID' is grayed out and the default value '/' is visible.But th...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improved search functionality in IBM BlueworksLive

Our organization uses widely IBM BlueworksLive as the standard process documentation tool. Many processes have been created, many accompanying attachments are stored in the system. The user needs a quick and exact identification of the process rel...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 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