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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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API support for import / export of process maps.

API support for import / export of process maps.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Ant 1.7 Vulnerability issue in IBM Business Automation Manager instances

Hi Team, In CITI we have a vulnerability with ant 1.6 version and Ant 1.7 ,when we install IBM Business Automation Worklfow 19.0.0.3 and 20.0.0.2 versions we are able to see the ant 1.6 or 1.7 installed. The Ant component is found in the below loc...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Add a filter to have the report of Standard Decision Service only

In the report tab, there is one link for the full report and one link for the report of main rules project. We have decision service with multiple project, in a multiple project, the main project don't have rules, the second link is empty. It woul...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Functionality already exists

Blueworks live Word Document Export

The export process to word functionality is so much limited that we can't use the generated report for anything, we need to add the following a. Due & Duration of task & decisions (no of months, days, hours etc.) b. Total No. of task &...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Allow end edit when showing snapshots

When looking at process blueprint snapshots other than the current version the "Edit" (in view mode) and "End Edit" (in edit mode) icons are inactive. This might make sense for the view mode, but a user should be able to leave the edit mode in any...
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

IBM endorsed RPA sample bots are accessible from Studio

No description provided
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Add Table of Content in Business Console Report

Add Table of Content in Business Console Report as in the Enterprise Console.
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Show linking processes on PDF process flowcharts

Please show "Linked Processes" (currently available when hovering over a process link on BWL) on Print to PDF versions of the process flowchart. When we print out PDFs of process maps to review with teams or post in office workspaces, the connecti...
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Process Summary Update

Currently the process summary includes values from the process that are not just at the process level. Example: If I've added inputs and outputs at the activity level, they are included in the process summary in the Inputs and Outputs. To me this ...
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

See cumulative metrics around a role/name

Ability to see all properties around a role in one screen. E.g. What is the total time that the Account Payable clerk spends on tasks across ALL processes. This will allow the customer to easily identify under or over-utilisation in the organisation.
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration