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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...

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Positioning of boundary events and flow paths on collapsed/expanded sub-processes

When adding a boundary event to a sub-process, when you expand the sub-process the flow paths from the boundary events do not originate at the actual boundary events and instead sometimes appear center bottom of the expanded sub-process. This make...
6 months ago in Blueworks Live 7 Planned for future release

Exception Handling for the Scripts

My idea is to have something close to what we have in Blueprism today, a block. A block is a rectangular region that groups together all the stages that fall completely within it. A block can contain its own Recover Stage, which will handle except...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Planned for future release

The new data mapping dialog in PC 23.0.1 should switch between graphical and JS input and wait for input or leave the existing one instead of emptying the existing values.

After our move to BAW 23.0.1 and Process Center 23.0.1 we were struggling with the new data mapping dialog and opened case TS014292733. We started with data mapping as defined prior to 23.0.1 and see the "JS" marker. Then we switch to JS mode and ...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Planned for future release

Enhance the blueprint export API, so that API can return result directly in PDF format and there is no need for docx-pdf conversion

Currently our business is facing issues with regards to a Formatting change done in IBM which resulted in broken data with their application.
9 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Enhance new governance functionality

The new governance functionality is a great new feature that we were missing since we introduced BWL in our company. Nevertheless there are still some limitations that are holding us back from activating it. Current limitations: When activating th...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Create Process Diagrams with AI

It would be a 'game changer' if users are able to auto create BPMN process diagrams in Blueworks by simply attaching process documentation, which details process steps end-to-end. Either through custom or default prompts, it would be highly benefi...
4 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Planned for future release

IBM Process Mining Simulation with Parallelism

Currently, Parallelism is not supported for the simulation engine in IBM Process Mining. The customer wants it included in IBM Process Mining to analyze such type of processes.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release

parallel development in BAW

Having a source control inside BPM to help developers in releases
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Planned for future release

Limiting User search from Platform IdentityManager

During the current go-live at ONGC, this is a major challenge. The Platform Identity Manager search does an entire search from LDAP repository without any pagination support or any limiting criteria. The limits should be configurable - whole idea ...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

Integrating Okta with CP4BA using SCIM should be supported in case management

There is a known limitation in CP4BA that management case solutions and applications are not supported when integrating with OKTA using SCIM. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0.0?topic=notes-known-limitations#concept_gmf...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release