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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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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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  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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Editor users - be able to search within a User Group

Large User groups (~3000) are difficult to maintain in the system. When viewing a user group, we would like the ability to search the user group for specific values. This ability should not be only at the Admin level but should be a function Edito...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Customize Property list at the Account Level not just at the individual user level

We have nearly 3000 Viewer users. The customize property function that was added is great but trying to get the message to 3000 Viewers on how to Customize their properties is difficult. We would like the ability to set customize the property list...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under consideration

Expand hover box on Property Value in Details window

When hovering over a property value in the details window, the black box that includes reference links is too small to cursor over without the black box disappearing. Please expand the black box to allow for better navigation to allow reference li...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Add comment field to Variables

It would be great if variables had support for comments and have the comment shown when opening the variable from the Variables panel, similar to what already happens with comments in commands.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Include Tenant Name in the email about Schedule failure.

This e-mail has the error message, Schedule name, Script name, and Computer name, but, isn’t have the Tenant's name. If you are a manager of two or more tenants this information is so important.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

bpmext.ui for complex objects

TS002434977 Let's say that we have nameValuePair variable as a CV's configuration option. Let's say that that context option is not bounded. If we use:var nameValuePairJsObject = { name: "Name 1", value: "Value 1" };bpmext.ui.substituteConfigOptio...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

JS API to update BPD instance variables

For CSHS development you normally map input and output data, but due to security concerns this is not safe as the data could be tampered while flowing over the wire. Therefore we need an approach to directly update the process instance variables v...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Simpler ODM DC REST API to create DC schema

the possibilities of enhancing the 'decisioncenter-api' app to consider the default model extensions and messages file while running '/v1/DBAdmin/execute' endpoint to create the DC schema. We don't need to run the '/v1/DBAdmin/uploadextensionmodel...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

BC: Showing custom properties in explore view

In BC, "Decision Artifacts" explore view & query results view, we want to show custom properties. Based on the config (custom properties to be showed in explore view), it should have columns for custom properties with usual sort option.
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Functionality already exists

BC Rule Editing: category change should be effective immediately

While writing rule, when rule writer changes the category property in the property window and goes back to the rule editor, BOMs should be filtered according to the new category list and rule also should be compiled and errors should be highlighte...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Is a defect