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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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Improve Error Messages for Overlaps

For overlaps in decision tables, currently the error message only states "Line X overlaps with line(s) Y". This is a problem if the problematic cell contains a huge set of numbers. In the attached screenshot, the number 2329 appears in two differe...
almost 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Apply password expiration policy in IBM RPA

A password expiration policy is very important and requested by many customers who have external auditing. One suggestion is for the user to be notified and required to change their password every 90 days.
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to the operator to support affinity for specific architecture type

The CP4BA operator currently has an affinitySelector that matches both amd64 AND s90x requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution: nodeSelectorTerms: - matchExpressions: - key: beta.kubernetes.io/arch operator: In values: - amd64 - s390x The re...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Option to deactivate email notification for expiring password

We would like to request for an option to deactivate the e-mail notification about a password that is expiring. We have some individuals who do not want to receive the e-mail notification as they are not frequent users of Blueworks. Instead of the...
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Enhance the Product feature - Roster dashboard in team performance

I am Adrien, leading IQA implementation all over our HSBC Wholesales teams, so far having already deployed more than 20 IQA instances. I would like to raise a a product requirement that I believe would greatly benefit your customers, starting with...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Add task (latest) case and task comments as a selectable system properties for in-basket and case summary

Often users work from in-baskets in the Work tab of Navigator, instead of utilizing the Case tab. (Sad, but true.) Consequently they wish to understand the overall state and have requested a custom comment or status field, which we then have creat...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Displaying of Large Number of Search Results

When a large number of search results are presented, the system offers a "Show More" option. There's no dividing line to determine where the original 25 ends and 26-50 begins. Even if the first 25 was removed and only 26-50 showed (so 25 at a time...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

DE: When generic Number class is used as the type, DE always converts all the numbers to Double which is unexpected

When we use Number as the type, In CRE it converts values into Integer or Double based on the value format. If value contains decimal then it gets converted to double, otherwise converted to Integer. But in DE, it always converts the value to Doub...
almost 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Is a defect

DE: Want To Debug Rules In Application Service At Run Time While Executing The Rules

We are migrating from CRE to DE and we see some differences in the rule fired results. To find the root cause, we want to know the variable values when a specific rule gets executed. Currently we are unable to debug the genereated DE code using th...
almost 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

License/Computer Certificate Approval functionality for users

Allow users to request for license info/computer certificate from admin users instead of requiring admin to pass these information offline/through email to users
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration