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,

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  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...
Share feedback 7
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
Share feedback 0

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The new Standard REST API should have the same functions as the heritage REST API

The new standard REST API only has a few methods available, compared to many in the heritage REST API - this is a drawback when deciding which variant to use - the heritage model clearly is the preferred one for complex integrations, but it is lac...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

If training fails due to any document in error, error information should be provided back to the user

The desired behavior for the training model is that if it finds that it cannot process all the data it is given, it should report a failure back to the user and allow the user to correct the issue. In such situation however we found that while the...
about 2 years ago in Automation Document Processing 0 Future consideration

Permit workstreams install in production patterns with workflow authoring

Production pattern is used for PoC and Demo environments when Cp4BA also needs to connect to customers LDAP and DBs. Absence of workstreams when Workflow Authoring is chosen is forcing to install another resource intensive instance just have works...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

API to Check if a user has task to action on

We have a requirement to check if a user has any Tasks for which he can action on, We have multiple BPEL processes with multiple tasks for each process. Each Task can be either a “Human Task” or a “Participating Task”. Each task has list of custom...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

ProcessPortal default value for "items per page"

Please add an option for ProcessPortal users to save a default value for "items per page".Case TS001092549
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Enable communication from BAW in containers to SOAP services

There are some clients who are starting to implement BAW and other automation capabilities in containers, however, some of those clientes have an old integration layer where they have some apps and services build in SOAP 2.0 or other versions; the...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

In ODM 811 Application, we want logs and event when build cache is invalidated

Please publish an event and also log a message whenever the DC cache is invalided for build due to any event (ex. bom change) / reason. Also include the specific action/change that caused the cache invalidation in the log/event msg.
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Allow only authenticated users to execute scripts through API

Implement an authentication flow for API calls to IBM RPA clients. There are multiple business concerns with the lack of authenticated calls: 1- It's impossible to check which tenant user triggered specific scripts. 2- With the proper policy...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists

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

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

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