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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...

All ideas

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Activity Type Icon overlaps activity label

When adding an Activity Type Icon to an Activity Box it can overlap activity labels.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Integrate BAMOE canvas with bitbucket-server api

We're integrating the BAMOE canvas product with our systems, and we've found that the integration with Bitbucket is based only for the 2.0 cloud api. We have our process-models code in our on-premise bitbucket-servers, and that make impossible the...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Planned for future release

Make the administrative functions web-enabled

Content Collector (ICC) currently requires administrators or operations specialists to remote desktop directly to the servers to create/update/execute task routes and to gather logs. If the administrative interface was web-enabled, this would redu...
10 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Planned for future release

Add SharePoint Support to Cloud based storage options

SharePoint allows managing files, and content collaboration for teams and organization across Microsoft 365. This product integration support is for future and existing RPA customer, who would like to use RPA to streamline their business operation...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

Template filters ability to add to current filters, not just replace

When applying multiple filters to one model if you want to apply a template filter in addition to current filters you can't. You can only replace current filters with template, and then you have to add all other filters you want to apply. This is ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Planned for future release

Improve Browser Debugger Support

The ability to debug Views is essential in non trivial Coach implementations. There are limitations as described in: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS8JB4_20.x/com.ibm.wbpm.wle.editor.doc/topics/tcf_viewdebughs.html The generated c...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Planned for future release

Able to remove filters from process page in dashboard page

Complicated rules on which filters can apply where - eg. Across to the dashboard We must go back and forward to apply filters in process and dashboard rather than being able to remove them in dashboard if they were set in process
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Planned for future release

Blueworks Live BPMN 2.0 does not export the Diagram Interchange

Blueworks Live BPMN2 does not export the Diagram Interchange (aka DI aka bpmndi tags ). Other process mapping tools are not able to generate the Process diagram (layout, etc) when the DI is not present. Could the DI be included to the BPMN2 export...
almost 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Planned for future release

Increase maximum characters value of IBM RPA credential

Currently, the IBM RPA maximum character value for a credential is 255. For example, a token which contains 450 characters makes IBM RPA unable to deal with those cases unless the token string is divided by two credentials, TokenPart1 and TokenPar...
7 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Planned for future release

IBM Content Manager 8.7 Rest Services API; Please create a method to retrieve Attribute Definitions of an Itemtype

Hello CM8 Developer Team, to build up our dynamically input mask with dynamic attribute input for each Itemtype for eventually creating asearch query, we miss an appropriate Rest Service Call to retrieve such attribute definition data. We have som...
11 months ago in Content Manager (CM8) 1 Planned for future release