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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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Blueworks Live BPMN 2.0 does not export the Diagram Interchange

Blueworks Live BPMN2 does not export the Diagram Interchange (aka DI aka bpmndi tags ). Other process mapping tools are not able to generate the Process diagram (layout, etc) when the DI is not present. Could the DI be included to the BPMN2 export...
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Delivered

Do not present deactivated users as eligible for Task reassignment

Currently, Task reassignment can be performed through a number of UIs/Consoles. In some cases Users who are members of the Team that a Task was originally assigned to may have been deactivated. The UIs/Consoles that allow Task reassignment are not...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Create Branches using REST API in Decision Center

The current REST API in DEcision Center does not allow the creation of branches. It would be useful to be able to manage branches using the REST API. Especially in the scenario when using external tools to synchronise Decision Center with external...
almost 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Delivered

Same behavior of automatic syntax assistance for java script syntax and content like in Eclipse PD wanted in Web PD

VKB developers want automatic syntax assistance for java script syntax and content to show up during typing, like it was in Eclipse/Desktop PD. In Web PD it is only available by pressing Ctrl+space.VKB developers liked the automatic assistance dur...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Rest API to extract information from DT in a simple way

The DecisionCenter usually has vital information for the organization that must be accessible to other systems so we think that an API to easily access the content of the DT is important.
almost 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Delivered

Enhance Validation errors and warning message

In the Process Center the panel that displays the validation errors and warning is a nice to have but when a error/warning mesage is displayed it does not (always) specify which activity has the problem so you basically have to go to each activity...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Include the time in the last change field in the component list view of the rule project

Product: IBM Operational Decision Manager It is required to display the date and time of the changes that have been made in the objects of the rule projects, for example rule flows, rules, etc. Currently in Decision Center 8.11 - Business Console ...
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Delivered

Open/public Federation APIs in IBM BAW

Currently federated list is created by fetching data from a BPM database. The protocol is closed. Please open and make protocol public so that it is possible to create home grown federated server
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

让用户可以查看流程图

在传统BAW部署环境中,用户从ProcessPortal中可以查看流程图,并可以在流程图中看到流程走到哪个节点了。 但在Cloud Pak版本中,ProcessPortal、Workplace、工作仪表板中全部看不到。 这个功能,IBM应该继续使用,让用户的体验更好。
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Delivered

Support for zVM V7.3 and later for current (21.0.3.1) and future BAW releases running on zlinux.

We need to have support for zVM 7.3 and later for BAW 21.0.3.1 and later because of the expected EOL for zVM in 2024Q4. Not having this is severly hindering our LCM for zVM.
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered