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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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Support for "Simple HTML" column in "Table" CV when exporting through "Data Export"

When developing UI, sometimes there is a need to export table data into an excel file. There is a "Data Export" View which can be configured to use the View "Table" in order to export data from table into an excel file. However, currently, that fu...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support to provide USER and GROUP to Workflow Process Service image

Current behavior of WfPS images when using docker-compose, we can either pass the USER or the GROUP, but customers can't pass both.
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Intermediate Timer Events to use the attributes set in the BPD where the timer exists and not the parent BPD attributes

In our shop, we have several BPDs that are invoked as "Linked Process" from parent processes. Both parent and child BPDs have "Intermediate Timer Events" and these timers are designed to follow the respective attributes set under "Work Schedule" s...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Create Portlet from the Client Side Human Service exposed as dashboard

Desktop Process Designer - Heritage Human Service exposed as Dashboard has option to "Create Portlet". Is it possible to have "create portlet" option from Client Side Human Service exposed as dashboard
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to cleanup installation packages from Process Center's database

The LSW_DEPLOYMENT_PACKAGE table grows over the time into tens or hundreds of gigabytes, because each generated deployment package is stored in that table for ever, for no reason. Once the snapshot is installed to process server, there is no reaso...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Stop deployment in Decision Center

When deployments should be stopped, for various reasons, there is no obvious way to stop a deployment.
over 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Require Policies to Have Unique Names

Currently policies can have the same name which can create a confusing list of policies in the glossary. Don't allow duplicate policy names.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Infinite scroll for large data

The table in BPM should support infinite scroll for large data sets with the mouse scroll triggering next page.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Dashboard with error summary

It will be helpful if the dashboard has deeper details, such as for failed jobs what is the most common errors and maybe the script line number as well so it's easier for developers to debug the script later on their studio.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Exclude glossary updates from model Last Modified metadata

It would be very useful to be able to use the Last Modified Date property of artefacts to show when a model should be reviewed, but this is not currently possible as every glossary update can change this date. Please consider having a modified dat...
about 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Functionality already exists