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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 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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BWL Enhancement for Problem Prioritization

Our team uses advanced Lean Six Sigma techniques and BWL best practices for our process improvement engagements. One technique involved capturing process pain point in BWL by documenting the description along with severity and frequency.
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Exporting Decision Table directly to Excel

From within a Decision Service, when looking at a Decision Table, having the ability to export the entire decision table you are viewing into and Excel Spreadsheet.
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Web designer click and drag gives ugly results

When moving items around on the Web Designer canvas, lines get redrawn incorrectly. See attached screenshots for before and after.
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

Web Designer Code editors need better JavaScript linter

All of the JavaScript code editors in the Web Designer have very simple JavaScript code checking, which means they cannot detect certain syntax errors. This means developers have to rely on visual inspection to assess code correctness, which is ve...
about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Consistency for DT row comments

Comments on rows in DTs are available in Rule Designer but not shown in DC consoles. This comes as a surprise to most users who start commenting their tables in RD. Feature should be made consistent across UIs by either deprecating from RD or addi...
about 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Planned for future release

Reduced log-in steps with SSO enabled

Please provide the ForceAuthn attribute on account level to reduce steps required to authenticate at log-in when SSO is enabled.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Support additional environment types for Environmental variables

In Process Designer, Environment Variables tab currently supports setting Default values, plus values for 4 environment types (Development, Test, Stage, Production). We have an Application team that wants to use 5 different environments (each has ...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Env Var for Executing User

Add Environment Variables such as Executing User that may include the values of the logged in user who executed the attended automation OR if it's unattended it might be some source schedule info or REST API calling parameters.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Need additional rule details in web hooks

If the below details are not avaiable in the RuleCreated/RuleUpdated events, kindly add them. Also provide an option to do customization to add additional details in the event data. Default Rule Properties Custom Rule Properties Rule Content Rule ...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Functionality already exists

Allow end edit when showing snapshots

When looking at process blueprint snapshots other than the current version the "Edit" (in view mode) and "End Edit" (in edit mode) icons are inactive. This might make sense for the view mode, but a user should be able to leave the edit mode in any...
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration