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 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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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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All ideas

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    To have task types - message and manual

    Currently, we can only define three task types - user, service and decision. In BPMN, two other commonly used tasks are manual and message task. It is important to have these symbols to ensure diagram is BPMN compliant.
    almost 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    Integration with Sharepoinrt 365

    There is a need to integrate a business process engine with document management systems. This is recognized and we integrate through CMIS. We are observing a shift in the market of vendors relying on other sets of API or proprietary APIs. Sharepoi...
    over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    IBM Case Manager EDS sent all properties for each update request causing unnecessary updates

    Originally opened as Ticket# TS004001245 The Solution has many properties enabled for EDS on the Case. When 1 property is updated in a case, all properties are sending over to EDS. Since There is no attribute to tell which property is modified, th...
    over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Do not close browse window in Outlook Plug-in when opening and closing an archived mail

    As a user I want to open an archived mail. From Outlook, I open the ICN Outlook-Plugin browse window, navigate through the folder structure to my archived mail and open in. The mail is opened in a separate Outlook-Window and in the background (in ...
    over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

    Loop detection. Rules loops that cause memory overloads should shut down gracefully

    When creating a rules project that calls another rules project, but accidentally gets called back you end up in an endless loop. This loop causes a memory overflow which crashes the server. It would be better if an error is thrown so that the deve...
    over 2 years ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 2 Not under consideration

    BWL Enhancement for Problem Prioritization

    Our team uses advanced Lean Six Sigma techniques and BWL best practices for our process improvement engagements. One technique involved capturing process pain point in BWL by documenting the description along with severity and frequency.
    about 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

    Can we add Risk name and description in metadata along with its severity which is already an existing feature

    If we can include risk name and description in metadata then every time we extract the process and activity from bluworks it would be readily available for analysis of process improvement. It can help the analyst to have all the required informati...
    over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

    Mapping suppliers to inputs

    It would be useful to have suppliers mapped to inputs and customers to outputs. As it is currently, these are completely separate entities, while in reality these are dependent of one another. Let's say we have the following defined for an activit...
    over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

    Allow arrow navigation in DC Desktop Verify treeview

    Using arrow keys to navigate from page to page the the treeview works fine in Datacap Desktop with a scan step, but it doesn't work in a Verify step. In Verify, the focus shifts to fields in the field pane and the treeview and the arrow keys no lo...
    over 5 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

    Drag Endpoint onto Sub-process

    Cannot drag an endpoint on top of a sub-process to draw the line.
    over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

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