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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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Test services

It would be nice to be able to mark Client Side Human Service as a test service if needed. This would mean 2 things: 1. that the test service can be binded as a test service to some artifact like other services, CV, BO, etc. 2. (less important) th...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Internal variables for coach views

It would be very useful if we could have internal variables for Coach Views. Currently there are Business Data, Configuration Option and Localization Resources. I would like to add one more type of variables: "Internal". Those variables would not ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to Multi-Select in a Muti-Valued Property Table

Case builder should have the ability to allow a User to Multi- Select Values inside a Multi-Valued Dropdown inside a property Table, which can be changed later as well. As of now the tool allows to select only 1 value.
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

SnapShot Version in the Export

Would like to have an indicator on the export what user saved snapshot is reflected in the export.
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Object Cloning not working

issues with Object cloning was with LiveLink ‘Web Reports' for 841 Ph2 in Prod
over 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration

Select query with multiple parameter in loop

When we are using excel as database and using select query with multiple parameter in loop, the result for first select query will retrieves the correct records.It will return you number of filter records if present. -For 2nd or 3 rd time when you...
over 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration

Bot should do mathematical calculation or not in the Variable Operation component.

When we are using variable operation to assign one variable to other variable when the value of the first variable is a contract number having sign '-' then the Bot is deducting the value. For example, the value is 103-746. The value of the new va...
over 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Is a defect

Subtask failure not indicated

Tracking Sub task failure from Parent task not possible.
over 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration

Data import to DB

Want to be able to import CSV data file into a DB (e.g. MS SQL) to refresh tables directly via AA. Had to develop stored procedure to do this.
over 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration

Control is passed to Excel and if there's any error bot will

VBA macro -- Control is passed to Excel and if there's any error bot will hang.
over 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration