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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 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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Ability to launch Bots ad-hoc via Control Center

The ability to click a button to immediately schedule a bot for launch from the Control Center. This is like for like capability that AA has
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Have a public API to queue in the first queue of the process

When I use Process Orchestration, with systemic queue, I need to insert a message in the first queue, to start the execution. But I can only insert via bot, so I can't make another system(BAW) start my Process, inserting an item in the queue.So I ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Enable choosing production version on scheduler instead of always using the same version

When creating a new scheduler, we need to pick a version of the script. When this script is updated, there is no way to change the version of the script used by the scheduler. It would help a lot if we could pick a version or the production versio...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Include BPM step in Timeline Widget view

Topic Timeline widget, meaning the widget used to see the detailed progress of one specific case: It shows the timeline in regards of all activities and work item/steps from the case creation 2. The pain point There’s a major “case follow-up/track...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Delivered

Move variable between input, output and private

Please add functionality to move variable from input, output and private to input, output, input and output (at the same time) or to private.
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Same visibility options for CV in CV like in Coach

When configuring Coach View visibility in Coach, there are 3 sources: Value, Rule and Script. There should be the same sources when configuring Coach View inside another Coach View.
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Capture Re-Assignment Events

The system needs to capture and emit events on task reassignment. This needs to capture both who did the re-assignment and to whom they reassigned the task to.
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

When you change pages on the ICN content list widget, go to the top of the next page vs. using the location from the previous page

The IBM Case Manager in-basket widget uses ICN content list widget to display the contents. If the In-basket has more items than will fit on a single page, when you navigate to another page, the view remembers the location from the page you were o...
almost 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

Decision Engine BOM2XOM ARL editor needs auto-completion

The Bom2XOM mapping field does not auto-complete entries when using the Decision Engine instead of the classic rules engine.The ARL based field don't respond to CTRL + SPACE so you have to manually type in all the code
almost 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 4 Delivered

IBM RPA - GetTable method for Chromium Desktop Application #EMEA #SPGI

We are trying to carry out with IBM RPA Studio is to capture the data of several tables present in this chromium desktop application using the "Get Table" command. In order to do that we have worked with the recorder tool so we explore the differe...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered