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 8
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

All ideas

    Enable OpenID connection for Tomcat and Jboss

    As per documentation, OpenID connection can only be used when using WAS Liberty. May we enable it for other application servers.
    over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

    We want incremental purging and archival of process instances and associated data including documents into a separate environment for future reference.

    We want to have incremental (online) backup of our processes which are purged and then stored into a separate archival environment (same database table structure as primary BAW environment). We are already aware of scripts that can be scheduled to...
    about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Support for Oracle Forms

    There are still quite a few customers that still using / trying to transition from using Oracle Forms that run as applets inside web browser (IE and Edge in IE compatibility mode). Unfortunately IBM RPA is not able to identify the UI elements insi...
    over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    MS SQL Server with jdbc > 10.2

    It appears that MS SQL jdbc drivers > 10.2 have a change in behaviour related to ssl. The command BPMConfig -validate -db c:\IBM\bawinst\PC\Advanced-PC-ThreeClusters-SQLServer.properties fails with the following error CWMCB0313E: An error occur...
    over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

    Improving Bot Project Scheduling with Custom Intervals

    To enhance the flexibility of scheduling bots, I suggest adding an option to use custom intervals directly (similar to the old scheduling system). This feature would allow users to specify an interval (e.g., 36 minutes) for bot executions without ...
    over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Option required to include " Date" property along with Calendar option under Custom Process Properties

    In Blue works live, we have options to include new text & number properties. How ever, we do not have option to include date properties (with calendar option). This data is essential for almost all the diagrams as we capture these details for ...
    over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

    Support visibility concept for TK artifacts

    Today all artifacts in Toolkits are public and can be re-used from other TKs or PAs that reference the TK.Yet common practice should be to structure the content of a TK in artifacts that are exposed and can be re-used and artifacts that are intern...
    almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Excel command for deleting a row needed

    Trying to loading an excel in a data table, deleting a row from the data table, and expecting the row to be deleted on excel. The delete rows command works in memory, literally deleting a row in the variable, not on the excel file. There is no exc...
    over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Multiple Select Option for Human in the Loop Commands

    As an RPA user interested in human in the loop tasks (message boxes, input pop ups), I would like the ability to have combo boxes or multiple select options
    about 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Allow custom "tw" client side properties

    Support case: TS002069687 Currently, IBM BPM 8.5.7 CF2016.12 and IBM BAW 18.0.0.1 support the following: tw.CSHSPresenter = {...} Then in each diagram step it may be possible to use the code tw.CSHSPresenter.init(); without increasing the security...
    almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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