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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:

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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Timebound the embedded rule execution and get partial/full results within the given time

When we invoke the rule execution API, we want to set the time limit for the execution. The API should return with partial results with whatever rules are executed if the rule execution is not fully completed within the time set.
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Not under consideration

Sequential Engine - Execute All The Rules Irrespective of Tuple Matching

Today, the CRE and DE sequential engines skip a rule task if any tuple variable(s) are missing during rule execution. This is not an expected behavior. There may be 100 rules in a ruletask and a tuple variable may be used in only one rule so why w...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Support for Adobe Flex applications

Using computer vision is really faulty to work with applications built on Adobe Flex. Understanding the Flash/Flex naming and technologies: https://stackoverflow.com/a/69040/1830639
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

508 Issue - Page Widgets do not contain semantic headings

Originally opened as PMR TS002789830 Most likely affects all Page Widgets, although 508 testing specifically focused on Case List page widget which is used for Search results. The Issue: Tabbing into pages (page widgets), heading is not read out t...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Moving ENVs and servers along with library artifacts

TS002787495 When moving a library artifact, if that artifact or its dependency have reference to environment variable or server, this settings are not moved because they are not library items. The result is broken binding after the move. The devel...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ensure no Null values in user last login/invite data

many user have no date value in their last login/invite data. I understand this happens when a user accepts their invite but never logs in. Please leave the invited date in place for these users or capture the date they accepted the invite
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Paging in import wizards for ENVs and Servers

Case TS002781598. If the environment has a lot of applications and toolkits, the timeout can occur in first page of import wizard when importing servers or environmental variables in application or toolkit settings in Web Process Designer. Current...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

SQL query in clear text

Pertaining to the current application, it was found that critical confidential data like username and password of DB, IP address and port of the DB are being transferred in clear text in the form JSON data. A malicious user can easily capture the ...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Captcha Missing

Captcha functionality is used defend against various kind automation attacks and brute force attacks in critical functionality like login page, forgot password, change password sections.Attacker can brute force the critical functionality such as l...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

I want a command that moves columns in excel

A command that works for both excel .xlsx and .xlsm files that moves columns or creates columns in the middle of a table of data.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration