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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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

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Date Time Picker incorrect validation warning

The Date Time Picker, when added to a coach, with the "Available start date" configuration set (for example, to today's date), produces an incorrect validation message if a user manually edits the text field to a date in the past.Instead of someth...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Add "evaluate" tool to the IBM RPA Studio

The tool would have the same functionality as the "evaluate" command. The idea is that developers can test their evaluations during implementation and also during debugging, without the need to run the evaluate command on different occasions.. Sim...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Add support for filtering email messages by content type

Add support for filtering email messages by their content type (HTML, plain text) in the emailApplySearchFilters command.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Add support for the POP3 protocol

POP3 is currently not supported.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Click command support for right-clicks and double right-clicks

Currently, the click command only supports left-click and double left-clicks. It could start supporting right-clicks and double right-clicks as well. This would remove the need for using real mouse inputs to simulate right-clicks and double right-...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Add ablitly to connect all data exports within Blueworks Live

Citi is transitioning our current process mapping inventory into Blueworks. Today we have the capability outside of Blueworks to view all of our map meta data in one file. With the current map data export options in Blueworks (Excel, BPMN, XDPL) t...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 8 Future consideration

Provide an inline evaluator within the scripts for mathematical processing

Instead of having to do math calculate commands everytime we want to modify a number value it would be great if we could designate some evaluated math that would return values. For instance if I wanted to select vIndex + 1 instead of using a comma...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Hybrid Defined Color Legend

We like the recent enhancement to define multiple color legends for the BWL account; however, we'd like to have a hybrid option. We'd like to be able to define a few colors but the rest of the colors are still available to be used in the map AND m...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Change runWindowsScript to allow multiple returns

While using "Run Windows Script" to execute Visual Basic scripts, the issue is that the output is limited to 1 string that's printed by the code. Request is to have the choice to list the output variables to be extracted from the code
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Enhancement/Plugin that allow bot commands to be run on remote desktop

Current remote connection only register the enter remote desktop as a window and hence require OCR-based command to interact. OCR-based commands are more difficult and less intuitive for use since they are not at 100% accuracy, takes longer time, ...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration