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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 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

Integration of Cloud Pak for Business Automation with knowMore

BPCE, among many customers, uses K-now - Knowmore product (https://www.knowmore365.com/en/solutions/k-now/) that offers real-time contextual guidance for easy digital adoption and enhanced user experience on their applications. This REF is a reque...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Open a tab like in Navigator

It is not possible to reproduce the behavior of content navigator when a case is opened, a new tab is opened with the case informations. It is not possible to have the same behavior in a view, meaning when the user clicks on a link, a new tab will...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Prompt for Business Unit while provisioning JIT license

When a new user is provisioning a Viewer license using SSO/JIT, they should be prompted for their Business Unit. Additionally, it should be required before accepting the request if account Admin configures it as a required field.
almost 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

A pop up every time the edit pencil is pressed

A pop up every time the edit pencil is pressed, asking user if they'd like to take a snapshot before editing. This helps in versioning control of all the process documented in Blueworks. Provide great change governance in a regulated organization....
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under consideration

Enable all library items movement in copy wizard from one track to another

Currently, when trying to copy artifacts from one track to another, some artifacts are not visible ("Service Flows", "Client-Side Human Service" and perhaps more) as a standalone artifacts and they can't be migrated on their own. I suggest that al...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Functionality for limiting the total number of bots running concurrently across a group of computers

There is currently no functionality for limiting the total number of bots running concurrently across a group of computers.
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Reclaiming focus of window after losing it

During the runtime of the bots, sporadic dialog windows from various software, such as Windows update notifications, appear. These windows take focus, causing the bot to stop working and encounter an error. Therefore, it is necessary for the bot t...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Change the default names used for the Request+Response+Error Class types in the RES generated HTDS services

If the JAVA XOM of your Operational Decison Manager project contains a class named Request or Response or Error then the definition of that class will be overwritten if you generate the OpenAPI/JSON file for the rule service deployed in the RES. ...
over 4 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

To list the recently added Meta Data “ Assurance date” in Glossary

We have recently added a new metadata field called “Assurance Date “(choosing the Number property).However we could not find the same listed in Glossary (where we could see other Meta data items mapped as text property are listed in Glossary).We h...
almost 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Build Command - Rules Execution Maven Plugin

Testing the decision artifacts will be seamless if we introduce/create a build-command 'rules-execution-maven-plugin' like the existing 'rules-compiler-maven-plugin' for building the decision artifacts stored in the SCC. We have the JUnit test fra...
over 4 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration