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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...

All ideas

Restore scroll bar on linked processes frame

We have some process activities that have multiple linked processes. In a previous version of Blueworks, there was a scroll bar that we were using to browse the linked processes. However, this scroll bar is no longer available in the recent versio...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Is a defect

Purging the active process instances based on date criteria

We would like to do bulk purge/delete/terminate the active process instances, which are modified by certain date. We can do the smaller amount of processes in the Process Inspector. But we have around 1 million active processes, which are modified...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Option to display/export Queue in IBM control center

In the Control Center. I would like to have a option to display/export the data added to the Queue(like in UiPath tool) . Right now I don't have any option to even see the data in the control center.
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 9 Future consideration

BlueWorks Inbound Process Links

The 'start task' (circle) in a process map should show links to all processes that can invoke the process (i.e. the list of processes that are currently listed in the 'where used' feature) in the same way as 'linked processes'. The exports (partic...
almost 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Not under consideration

Give admins the ability force a cleanup run of Glossary Terms.

In trying to delete Glossary Terms, I frequently get the message that clean up has not occurred. Some process maps were deleted weeks ago, yet I cannot delete the associated values. What constitutes an automatic cleanup run, how often should they ...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

arsadmin encrypt/decrypt

To maintain the feel of consistency of arsadmin tool it would be welcome to add (unlock) sub modules of encrypt / decrypt when CMOD is configured with the encryption at rest.
about 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Not under consideration

Annotation Auto save feature while processing the case or closing the case

In Daeja setting we can specify Annotation auto save and this is working fine in ICN and Stand alone Daeja, but it doesnt work in ICM or BAW. PMR was raised and we were requested to submit enhancement request.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Mapping list variable on error data

TS002444983 Currently it is possible to map variable which is a list to "Error End Event" in "Service Flow". It is also possible to caught the error and to extract object from error object. However, when binding the list, a validation error: "The ...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Be able to keep the terminal connection open when using the command "execute script"

Today it is not possible to keep a terminal connection open when a main script calls another secondary one to execute, with the "Execute Script" command. It would be interesting to be able to share a terminal connection variable between scripts. W...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Adjust Slovak translations in Case Client widgets and actions

Customer would like to enhance some of the provided product translations (Slovak language), which might be for end-users misleading. Here is the list of translations to change (in form of EN label - current SK label => newly proposed SK label):...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration