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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:

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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Import Activity/Task level attributes data to Blueworks Live via data loader functionality

Currently, the metadata or activity/task level details have to be entered manually for each activity which is a manual intense and tedious job making it a big business pain point and they hesitate from doing this exercise. Therefore, it would be m...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

Scheduled job run for artifacts extract such as Spaces, Process blueprint, Task management

Scheduled job run will save time as it would require one time rules configuration by eliminating the repeated manual effort in selecting the spaces/sub-spaces and run report which is time consuming Admins and Users will benefit from this enhanceme...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Script comment formatting

According to the RPA guidelines: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rpa/21.0?topic=guidelines-comments We should create formatted comments to enable the readability and maintainability of bot scripts. However, it is hard to do this as we have to create c...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Ability to update external web service through Web PD

Interamerican would like to be able to update External Services created from YAML files from WebPD. Currently, there is no update capability of external services discovered from YAML files. In order to be able to update an external service, you ha...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Artificial intellegence robotic application for every agricultural cattle-Poultry -mashroom farming applications etc

AI robotic application for every agricultural & farming sector applications powered by quantum battery with language knowing features
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 0 Not under consideration

Files OST

Generate a command to obtain the entire OST file through an Imap connection instead of just the information.
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Logoff after finishing bot execution

If I use the logoff command in the script, my execution fails because the execution doesn't expect to terminate my bot and close the user.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Not under consideration

align all the BAW components using the same latest dojo version

-each component below is using different old dojo version, which is known with multiple security vulnerabilities -please apply the latest stable version of dojo 1.16.4 Web Process Inspector (dojo 1.10.5) Alert Specification (dojo 1.10.5) Process A...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

import attribute data via api or excel

Currently for any process map in blueworks where a task is created any attribute or metadata linked to the task has to be entered directly in blueworks. Using the existing exports to excel its easy to identify where data is missing. it would be mu...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the Powerpoint process report

PLEASE SEE ENCLOSED DOCUMENT WITH SCREEN CAPTURES The current PowerPoint reporting method has some specific limitations:1/Any sub process with more than 8 activities does not fit onto the slide  2/The process map image is presented in the viewing ...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under consideration