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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

All ideas

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Font support in Views

This request is to make the development easier when developer needs to use a custom font. Currently, there is an ability to add CSS and JS files in View artifacts (library items). It would be nice to have the ability to add custom fonts. Currently...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Adding BPMN 2.0 Shapes

There is only a limited selection of shapes BPMN 2.0 Shapes available. It would be beneficial to have the palette of all shapes. Also, having the ability to have separate swimlanes/pools and child swimlanes, this is currently covered by the specif...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Cover Task completed time on The Gantt Chart in Process Instance view

The Gantt Chart in Process Instance view does not cover thecompleted time even if the task is completed.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

CP4A Support for GKE

Hi, Can you please introduce support for GKE. Thank you.
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Tagging Enhancement

Right now we do not currently have the ability to make tags preferred. The only option right now is "Only visible when used." Would also like visibility to all tags when conducting a search, not just those on items you have access to see.
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Minimize Chat Box

I would like to see an enhancement to be able to minimize the chat windows. It's difficult to use the chat boxes as an opportunity for collaboration when they obscure the process mapping window.
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 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...
almost 7 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.
almost 7 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.
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future 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
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration