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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).


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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 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
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...

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Decision Center: Add REST methods to manage Decision Runner

In today trends, we use Decision Runner no just to check, but also to generate compliance reference values, hence it would be nice to also get those operations exposed in the REST-API to add new scenario. Create Scenario (and Simulation) execute S...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add notes to IP address lockdown

Managing IP address lockdown would be much easier if it displayed a note against each entry to help the administrator identify what the range refers to.
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Extend BAL

In the BAL there are constructs for ‘there is at least one (object)' and ‘there is no (object)'. We quite often need the construct ‘every (object)' to check whether some conditions apply to every object in a set of objects. We now mostly use the c...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

option to cancel bot schedule when other bot is still running in runner

Include a configuration that permits cancel a bot schedule when other bot is still executing in runner.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 0 Functionality already exists

Enhance Decision Runner handling uninitialized lists

Request to enhance Decision Runner to handle comparison of a null List as output to an actual String or list of Strings in expected results. Currently this scenario generates an error and no results are displayed.
almost 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Provide Customer a mechanism for allowing them to remove their logs from BACS.

Currently the BACS team needs to logon to the Customer tenant Linux server and then remove the log files. Customers want to be able to do that themselves but we don't have access to SSH to the server to remove the logs themselves.
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration

Integrated open source office

ECM (ICN) in cp4ba should be integrated with open source office to realize online office functions out of the box. If customers need to use more powerful functions, they can purchase licenses by themselves.
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

Bulk process diagrams (blueprints) import

Being able to bulk import process diagrams (blueprint) either via console or APIs
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Remove Timeout of connection to server using On-Premise Version

When using the On-Premise version of IBM RPA, we have a limitation where every 2 hours, the system disconnect from the server, and the process returns errors during the execution of any script. We do not have any pop-up to inform us that the Studi...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Timebound the embedded rule execution and get partial/full results within the given time

When we invoke the rule execution API, we want to set the time limit for the execution. The API should return with partial results with whatever rules are executed if the rule execution is not fully completed within the time set.
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Not under consideration