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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,

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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 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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See cumulative metrics around a role/name

Ability to see all properties around a role in one screen. E.g. What is the total time that the Account Payable clerk spends on tasks across ALL processes. This will allow the customer to easily identify under or over-utilisation in the organisation.
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Create a Value Type variable using file assignment as in Automation Anywhere

When we have multiple bots with parameters and configurations, it is very useful to have config files that contain variables and parameters that we need to update during the development or after the deployment. This helps you to have a scalable co...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

Scroll bar availability for single select and text control

Need scroll bar availability for single select and text control as we are unable to see the whole text when displayed as read only field and width as 33%. IBM support team has provided 2 solutions but end users are not satisfied with the solution ...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Usability of the product with Automation frameworks like DevOps Pipelines

Please refer the Case - TS005350441 Lack of API / ANT Tasks to upload and run the Test Suites is breaking our automations and causing huge efforts to manually upload, execute and validate the test reports. We have about 100+ Rule Projects and expe...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Functionality already exists

View Participant when exporting to word for linked processes

View Participant when exporting to word for linked processes. Only able to see for who the participant for an activity that's not a linked process.
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

To enable option for editors (Space Managers) to export data from Community page

During December-20 Enhancement release , we got the feature as Admins can export up to one year of history. after this feature, we are getting request from many business teams to export the data on the changes made in their space/ map etc. since t...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Fix .setValid() to work for all Input Views

Currently some UI Toolkit Views do not support .setValid() despite documentation stating it should. The following views as of v20.0.0.1 do not show a validation indication on a coach when using .setValid(): Check Box Group Input Group Multi Select...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow user to see all names (instead of just 10) and scroll through the list when reassigning a task in the Process Portal

Currently, when a user reassigns a task to another user, they only see a list of 10 names, even if there are more, and they must start typing a user's name in order to find it and click on it. My request would be to show the full list of the users...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Activity Type icons to appear outside the activity box to easily read text in box

Would be helpful if the Type icons are not placed inside the activity box, as it hinder legibility of the text of the box.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Request to be able to key in times manually in UI Toolkit Date/Time Picker

In the UI Toolkit for the Date/Time Picker, the user is not able to key in the time by hand after clicking the time symbol. Currently, they can only adjust the time with up and down arrows, which is both old fashioned and inefficient. Ideally we w...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration