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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 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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Possibility to wrap column names in business console decision tables

With the release of ODM 8.11, Entreprise console is abandonned but in our company some business users still use it regularly. Indeed they have created some decision tables which are not really business rules but actually tables to map information ...
almost 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Additional information in PDF print file header

I suggest including additional information in PDF header. At the top of each PDF page some blueprint information are already included: process name, unique ID, process link, space and last modified date and time. It will be very useful if name of...
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

In the rule designer, make default verbalizations for List and Map handling methods

We would like to have default verbalizations for the java.util.List interface the following methods : get, set, add, addall, containsAll, remove, removeAll, retainAll.For the java.util.Map interface : put, keySet, entrySet (and more if possible)
almost 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Customize report from decision center

plz give an option for users to choose which fields are displayed in the out of the box report that you get from the business console. For ex: (see attached)its printing name on the report.
almost 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Snapshot revision Variances

Details on the variance between each snapshot. Could be managed by colour coding activities that have changed since previous versions. Have seen this capability with other BPM platforms.
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Utilise Hierarchy Function for Processes

Use hierarchy view function for both spaces and processes so you can see list of process names within each space using the hierarchy function. Currently only available for Space's.
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Decision - Word export to provide single view of all Decision content

There are a number of options to export Decision Tables but none provide a single view of the whle decision- Print pdf only exports the activity box for the decision table- Export Decision - exports the data across 16 different Excel worksheets Wo...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

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

Excel Integration - Search by named range / name manager

After some research with the Excel integration verbs, I realized that excelGet and excelGetTable works only with cell ranges or line/column references. There is an available resource inside Excel that allow us to find cell ranges based on a named ...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Instant messaging interface service

I hope to provide an instant messaging interface service. For example, in the BPM process, people need to be reminded to deal with work tasks. Now they are reminded by email, and there are no interface services for pushing to slack and wechat. If ...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration