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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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sorting option not shown in Single Select in UI Toolkit

In Single Select under Responsive Coach the "Disable sorting" option is shown. The items that appears in single select is alphabetically ordered. But in Single Select under UI Toollkit the "Disable sorting" option is not shown. The items that appe...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improve Search/Sort functionality in Web Designer

The search functionality in Web Designer doesn't seem to work very well. Every time my team want to get to a specific project we have to sort and then page through until we find the project. Every time to go back out to the main screen, the sortin...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

We really need Custom Assignment Back for All Tasks

We have a use case where a user who does one task needs to also be the user that does a future task. It isn't a good use case for last user in lane because we use subprocesses and last user in lane doesn't work. We used to be able to assign direct...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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

Enable Watson Translate on the template description

We have a good set of template availablehttps://ibm.blueworkslive.com/scr/home#!library:templatesHowever, the template description, sometime detailed, is available only in english.It would be good to enable Watson Translate on that page so that cu...
almost 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Provide ability to change scheduled time of events in BAW

BPM/BAW should have the ability to update scheduled time of events to a later date/time through the Process Admin console or any other method in case a problem occurs with certain event execution.
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

TW Search API truncates text (string data type) that has more than 512 characters long.

As requested by IBM engineering team in case# TS002626219 for problem statement as follows - TW Search API result is truncating the TW search result output to 512 characters. The data type of that variable is String; please note that all those obj...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

More formatting freedom to move gate labels

Gate Labels: More formatting freedom to move gate labels so that they are not locked in position far away from the corresponding gate fork.
almost 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 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

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