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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 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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Providing funtionaility for Business Automation Workflow on Cloud users to extract reports of activted , invited but not activated , inactive users on BAW

The client needs a functionality to export the list of activated , inactivated and invited users for BAW. This will be helpful for keeping track of the users especially the ones who were invited but didn't activate their accounts. This will unbloc...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Planned for future release

Ability to assign the review/approval tasks to Viewers without any approval or completion action requiring from them

On the process blueprint review, we can assign the tasks to Editors but there is no way to assign the tasks to Viewers. We need a feature where a task can be sent to a Viewer user with or without giving them any access to complete, approve or reje...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Configuration Option To Force Linking Instead Of Attachements

Create a configuration option for administrators to disable the ability for users to upload attachments. When configured all of the functionality for attachments is replaced by functionality to add a url to a document in another repository.
almost 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

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

Flexible Cleanup of BPM DurableMessages

IBM BAW provides a command for removing BPM Durable messages.BPMDeleteDurableMessages command:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS8JB4/com.ibm.wbpm.ref.doc/topics/rref_bpmdeletedurablemessages.html BPMN Processes can often have an extend...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow User to cache SSO log in for a set amount of days

User mostly shares processes with people that have viewer licenses and they find it to be a waste of time to have to log in every single time they open a link. If the SSO settings could be changed to allow a user to open a process without logging ...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under 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

Showing String-type value in Report

For ODM, it is only possible to show KPIs in Report. However, the data type of KPIs are limited. Is it possible to have a function to show other types of data in report? Such as String or Hashmap?
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration