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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 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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508 Issue - Search Page Widget – Unlabeled Search By Field

This issue was original opened as a PMR but the Product Team asked the it be submitted as an Enhancement Request. The PMR Number is TS002789819 (it wouldn't let me add to this form due to new PMR Number formatting) Also, this Enhancement Request i...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Styling of Web Process Designer

Add styling option to Web Process Designer. In specific, ability to change a font used to display a JavaScript code. By default it is Arial 12px and this font is not optimal to display code.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Request for multiple format handling in UI component DateTimePicker

The BPM UI "Date Time Picker" component in BPM UI Toolkit, can as per today, validate input with only one input format, i.e. yyyy-MM-dd when entered by the user using the keyboard. (in addition to the ability to pick a date in the calendar that po...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

IBM to support ERM Hold policies for CMOD Cache Only environments

Westpac has a Records Management requirement for all Mainframe generated Reports and Customer Statements which flow into CMOD 10.5.0.2. The RM requirement is to dispose of this content that is older than 7 years from the generation date. The CMOD ...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Records 3 Delivered

Add OR option to portal saved search filters

Our internal customers have asked us to provide a way to allow filters using OR when defining saved searches. They have told us of situation where this would be helpful, such as task subject contains Build or task subject contains Verify This c...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Selecting a later page in "Work" tab results in many API calls to reach that page.

When looking at the "Work" tab in Case Client, directly choosing a page other than the first one results in an ever-increasing number of API calls to the MergedWorklistService. The code is effectively calling “nextPage” until the desired page is r...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Blueworks Live BPMN 2.0 does not export the Diagram Interchange

Blueworks Live BPMN2 does not export the Diagram Interchange (aka DI aka bpmndi tags ). Other process mapping tools are not able to generate the Process diagram (layout, etc) when the DI is not present. Could the DI be included to the BPMN2 export...
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Delivered

Automatically generate YAML files

The implementation and upgrade of the IBM Cloud Pak environment requires custom YAML files, but now all are customized and modified based on files. It is recommended that IBM create a website for automatic generation of YAML files, so that users c...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Delivered

Enhanced integration REST API

Right now there is a set of integration API that can be invoked by external scripts, flows and so on. It would be useful to have additional REST API to automate some analysis such as: interaction with project settings, CRUD operation to interact w...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Delivered

Same behavior of automatic syntax assistance for java script syntax and content like in Eclipse PD wanted in Web PD

VKB developers want automatic syntax assistance for java script syntax and content to show up during typing, like it was in Eclipse/Desktop PD. In Web PD it is only available by pressing Ctrl+space.VKB developers liked the automatic assistance dur...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered