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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 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...
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

All ideas

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Being able to see full process name

Process names are truncated in spaces and there is no way of seeing the whole name at a glance. It would be great to be able to see the full name
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under consideration

RPA - Memory limitation

Remove the memory limitation on the AA Client. The customer is getting an error out of memory when trying to run a bot. Case: TS003938179 Best regards.
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration

Mapping suppliers to inputs

It would be useful to have suppliers mapped to inputs and customers to outputs. As it is currently, these are completely separate entities, while in reality these are dependent of one another. Let's say we have the following defined for an activit...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Move activity label in any direction

Want to be able to move label anywhere. Currently can only move horizontally or vertically, but not both.
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Out of the Box, Scalable, Lightweight (like value editor) Multilevel (Parent-Child) Dynamic Domain Support

We want ODM to provide an option to simply define multilevel data filters with dynamic data configuration. Today dynamic domain creates bom class which doesn't scale when we have a large number of entries, and also to extend it for two-level (pare...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Future consideration

ODM on Cloud: Aggregate RES report of ruleapps

Executive IT requires a report of the number of requests per decision service in Production. A report similar to the 1 month metrics available in Production Rule Execution Server Consolidated Report.
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

BC:Provide a control (UI Object) to receive multiple inputs from the list of given static items for a custom rule property

Provide a control (UI Object) to receive multiple inputs from the list of given static items for a custom rule property. For example, to show the list of items with checkboxes where the user can select multiple checkboxes and we should be able to ...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Create a unique id (rule id) for each rule when it is created and support search, query functionalities on that

Create a unique id (rule id) for each rule when it is created and support search, query functionalities on the rule id.
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

DE AutoException Handler:Continue Rule Execution on Next Statement When Exception Raised on Set Statements(Rule Definition)

When there is an exception raised from set statement written on definition section of the rule, if the DE auto exception handler is used, then the exception should be handled and a null value should be assigned to the variable and then the rule ex...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

An option to avoid categories being inherited from dependent projects

When we add dependencies to a rule project, we may add another rule project as a dependency and we need an option to restrict categories list being inherited from the dependencies.
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration