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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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Translation mechanism for ICN custom menus

When changing regional settings, no translation mechanism exists to manage localized values of custom menus is ICN. The custom menu value should be able to be localized, and not be a fixed value. For example : I create new actions through a plugin...
almost 2 years ago in Content Navigator Is a defect

Check status that are "Running" or "Cancelling"

If there are any problems with the communication between the client and the Server, you may have problems when a bot is running or canceling an instance of a process. The bot will get stuck with these statuses and will not be changed. A good idea ...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Is a defect

Fix Column sequence mismatch issue in Decision Runner generated spreadsheet report

We have introduced multi-column in the scenario sheet to handle input JSON request of size > 32K characters. 32K is the cell size limitation.But the columns in Decision Runner generated report spreadsheet get jumbled up. The column sequence is ...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Is a defect

When the rule property names are long, the user expects the details pane to adjust in width accordingly without having to resize manually

Our business users use Business console to managed and maintain their business rules. We have a sizable team of business users . An increasing feedback from the business users we have been receiving is their frustration on resize(expand) the rule ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Is a defect

Task mining - task classification - exclude task (not working)

Task classification - Exclude task (not working) In a situation where the user manually assigns a name to a task, in that case the option to exclude tasks does not work. Such a task should not proceed to the next steps (Project configuration)(I se...
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Is a defect

Process Mining - What If - Your to-be scenario - automatic process overview update

Your to-be scenario - automatic process overview update At the level of Your-to-be scenario making changes in the Process evolutions and Configuration tabs and applying the Simulate action, the process overview is not updated. The same problem is ...
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Is a defect

Enhance Verbalization Display in New Editor to Support Full Rule Descriptions

In version 8.12, the new editor truncates rule verbalization to 50 characters, making it difficult for users to view complete rule descriptions. The new editor should support word wrap or provide an option to view the full verbalization of rules, ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Is a defect

Assign variable command

The assign variable command, when selecting the input variable to be configured, allows you to select or append the variable. This should be only select.
8 months ago in Robotic Process Automation Is a defect

Error message generated when trying to add and authorize a connection with an E-mail

When the E-mail accounts do not have their licenses activated, an error message is generated in the Tenant/Control Center that does not specify the reason for the error. We need a message that is more specific and helps the customer understand th...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Is a defect

Task mining - task classification - exclude task (not working)

Task classification - Exclude task (not working) In a situation where the user manually assigns a name to a task, in that case the option to exclude tasks does not work. Such a task should not proceed to the next steps (Project configuration)
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Is a defect