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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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Add labels to Milestones and Activities to identify types of waste for those selected as NVA

Waste removal is a primary goal of LEAN for process improvement. As Blueworks Live aligns to this goal by allowing categorizing activities as Value Add or Non-Value Add, it would be good to further categorize the Non-Value Add activity into its ty...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Handle Long Datatypes with external Webservice Integrations

Hi Naveen, So the reason why there is no LONG type is that IBM BPM uses Javascript at various locations. JavaScript represents all the numbers as IEEE 754 double precision floating point numbers.See Variable types in Process Designer. It is not po...
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Fully asynchronous ruleset updates

Currently, when a new ruleset is deployed, we are seeing an increase in response times for requests while the new ruleset is being parsed. Make the update of a ruleset fully asynchronous, extending further the current asynchronous ruleset parsing ...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

RDS Oracle EE on AWS as one of the supported database for IBM Content Manager

Our organization is migrating on-premise Content Manager to AWS cloud. As per official documentation, only DB2 and Oracle database are supported for Content Manager version 8.7. RDS Oracle EE is the approved database service on AWS for this applic...
over 2 years ago in Content Manager (CM8) 0 Future consideration

BAW container Ver. 2202 Need timezone setting enhance for UMS relevant Pods

Consulted with UMS L3, there not document or support setting the timezone explicitly for UMS. We (support and client) also tried configured below Jvm_options in UMS configuration, but it did not work.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Prevent users to access BPM Process Admin

We would like to prevent non-admin users from accessing Process Admin Console. Can you add this functionality/enhancements in BAW future versions?
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to add notes to IP address lockdown

Managing IP address lockdown would be much easier if it displayed a note against each entry to help the administrator identify what the range refers to.
over 10 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

in Business Console, for a decision service replace the linked projects view with a dependency tree view

In the business console we would benefit from having a dependency tree showing each project and branch with quick access to change a dependency. We have a linked projects view that shows dependency on project but it does not show the branch of the...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Long list of data objects available to build a guided rule

We use around five to eight data objects per rule and we need to browse them in the extensive list available. Also, the names appear similar, and it confuses the user.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Not under consideration

Add POP3 Support to IBM RPA

A customer has a bunch on linux servers and they use the POP3 servers on these machines to orchestrate them. They are aware of the fact that this is no future-proof solution but it will not change soon. In order to automate these mechanisms RPA wo...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration