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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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cmod do not allow oam storage set assignment for application group that is expire type segment

when an application group is assigned to a storage set that was initially cache only and then a storage node for oam is added and marked for load data....... arsmaint is expiring the cmod indexes, but not the oam directory rows or oam objects. thi...
over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 7 Not under consideration

CMOD new message when new db2 table created

A new message type is written to the system log when cmod dynamically allocates a new application group data table. It should have the standard date/time, the name of the application group and the specific db2 table name created. Why this is impor...
over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

ODM SMF 120 subtype 100 - set SMF120FLG bit 1 (SMFHDR_FLG) indicate subtype value for 100

We request that the WAS ODM SMF 120 subtype 100 data-recording be amended to include the IBM-standard SMF main-header bit-1 setting to denote that "subtype is valid". Consider that the WAS SMF 120 subtype 9 record applies to this standard.The IBM ...
about 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Order / visualize views by tag within a category

This RFE is related to the support ticket TS002635333. Since the new categorization of views in the Process designer (see https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS8JB4/com.ibm.wbpm.wle.editor.doc/topics/ccreatingviews_categories.html) view...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow option for space permissions to be inherited by default

Currently it is a manual process to make a child space inherit user permissions by default. It can become quite a time intensive task to change all the permissions in all the nodes in a section of the space structure, if one decides to change the ...
almost 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

ODM BC UI Import project/Ant tool/APIs should support importing individual projects

In ODM 8.9.2.1, from BC UI, we can import individual projects. But ODM 8.11 doesn't support importing individual projects. We get "Only Decision Services can be uploaded in Decision Center" error. Kindly add support to import individual projects.
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Is a defect

Rename Blueprints within a Space when the entire Space is copied

When you copy a processes the process is renamed with a prefix of 'Copy of'. The same behavior occurs when you copy a Space for the Space name. However, the Blueprints within the Space Copy are not renamed forcing the user to rename one by one and...
almost 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

IBM Navigator plugin loaded status and dependency of plugin details

After restart of profile of WebSphere all plugins need to be loaded back by administrator ,If team can have smart way to load all plugin and also indicate dependent plugin and notify through email or SMS to admin if any plugin losses connection.
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

Keep activity numbering on when in Analyze Mode

Turning on Activity Numbering is incredibly helpful, especially when communicating with users in building/updating processes. However, as soon as Analyze mode is selected the activity numbering is turned off. Keeping the activity numbering turned ...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Allow default view to be set at the account level when a link to a process is provided

Allow selection of which process blueprint view (Discovery Map, Process Diagram, Documentation) will be displayed when a link to a process is defined on Linked Process activities. Example, we have Discovery Maps that are basically an outline of al...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration