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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

All ideas

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Button to go up in the sub hierarchy (breadcrumbs style)

When developing using multiple Subs, it is common to reuse a Sub in another and this might lead to some nested levels. Currently, going back to the previous Sub is painful, since this is what you can do: Go back to the Main of the script and try t...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Configuration self service for application configurations

IID supports adding promotable properties to applications, these can be configured from was console. One can also create resource environment properties that can be configured from was console. The admin interface currently supports only configuri...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Provide a preference that hides the left sidebar and keeps it hidden unless the preference is changed

We would like a preference setting in a user's profile that allows them to hide the left sidebar unless the setting is changed.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Blueworks Change Request

We would like to include the Item numbers in all of the data tabs.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Set a duration or period of User License

Set a limit how long does a single user will have their access, then if not reviewed and requested for extension, then the access will automatically be revoked.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Management of optional inputs in DVS templates

No description provided
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Export process to PDF from space view

In a space when looking at the list of all the process blueprints, you can easily export the process to PowerPoint, Word, and Excel without going into the process blueprint except PDF. Please add an option to export to PDF from the space view
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Combine init () and readWsdl() functions on outbound call, using integration service

I have attached a screenshot of what happens whenever an outbound service call is made within BPM, using the integration service. We have the yellow highlighted which take upto 700ms each; the actual invoke takes ~80ms - the wsdl has more than 35 ...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Change the way to compact the PFS_BPD_CHANGE_LOG table

Our DBAs detect that the PFS does a compaction procedure every hour in BPM database executing this Query: DELETE FROM BPMPSRP1.PFS_BPD_CHANGE_LOG OLDER WHERE OLDER.CONSUMER_001 = 20 AND EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM BPMPSRP1.PFS_BPD_CHANGE_LOG YOUNGER WH...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

DataBase Encryption for BPM on premise

BPM proprietary databases need to be encrypted.
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration