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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...

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The ‘select and move’ tool: because it’s a combined tool, it can sometimes create accidental selects/moves of process activities when you are intending to just move around the map

The ‘select and move’ tool: because it’s a combined tool, it can sometimes create accidental selects/moves of process activities when you are intending to just move around the map
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

The ‘select and move’ tool: if you are using this to move around the map and your pointer moves off the map window, and you return it to the map it remains “active” which can disrupt effectively moving around the map (this only applies to really large maps)

The ‘select and move’ tool: if you are using this to move around the map and your pointer moves off the map window, and you return it to the map it remains “active” which can disrupt effectively moving around the map (this only applies to really l...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

CMDB Connections via APIs to regularly update the systems glossary

CMDB Connections via APIs to regularly update the systems glossary. We’d like to have a regular automated refresh of our system glossary based on our updated CMDB list.
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 4 Functionality already exists

4. Make axis font size larger, prevent text cut off (wrap text) – especially difficult when zoomed out or exporting a large blueprint to a PDF

Make axis font size larger, prevent text cut off (wrap text) – especially difficult when zoomed out or exporting a large blueprint to a PDF. Both the PDF and in BWL when you zoom out on a large map. When zoomed out or printed, the font size on the...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Text Annotations - Allow for larger character count without losing all content when clicking out of the annotation

Text annotations – allow for sub bullets & larger character count without losing all the content (lose full annotation if you go over 800 characters and click out)
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Request for Navigator Integration in Adobe Acrobat, similar to our existing Navigator integration for Microsoft Office (NIMO).

The client is requesting functionality similar to what we offer for Microsoft Office applications, known as Navigator Integration for Microsoft Office (NIMO). Specifically, they want the ability to add a menu item within Adobe Acrobat that connect...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

PFS saved search to support TWSearch JS API

Client is running on BAW on premise. They have TWSearch JS API in applications, and users are using saved search in Process Portal. The problem is, client gets saved search query performance issue in PROD from time to time, and they have big runti...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

out-of-box User API for the Tasks in that are present at the BPMN design time .

out-of-box User API for the Tasks in that are present at the BPMN design time. We are having requirement where we need to get the Process and its defined tasks at the designed to configure the SLAs for them outside the BPM. We are looking for an A...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 2 Functionality already exists

implement monitoring of operator activity (IT employees - developers, administrators) on BPM platform

Customer is planning to implement monitoring of operator activity (IT employees - developers, administrators) on BPM platform. The goal is to obtain a clear, cross-sectional summary of activity over time for individual process developer. The summa...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The ability to bulk load attributes when you have over 1000 workflows -vs- one at a time

Client has over 1000 models and if they need any bulk updating it becomes very. manual - from a conversation with the client to give context - Tom and Poojitha discuss bulk import request - FURTHER CLARIFICATIONS-20240916_151217-Meeting Recording....
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration