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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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Ability to send message from throw (send) message event to multiple catch (receive) message events in one or more processes

In order for multiple spawned processes to be "linked" via send/receive message events, send event should be able to send message to multiple receive message events in one or more processes. Basically provide ability for "Multiple" event type.
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Ability to select API Tester Application in testing Change or Validation Activity

Integrate functionality to allow the user to select a third-party API testing application (e.g., Postman, SoapUI, etc.) in the Test tab of a Change Activity to test business rules. Selecting an API testing application will automatically create a R...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Adding Portal allowing business user to run reports

The current situation when a business or technical user need to run a pdf or excel report he would need to email the bot with the requested report and the bot will email him back with the report attached, The idea is to give a web portal to the us...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Command "Bulk insert with SQL" does not work using the same collumn more than once

When using the command "bulk insert with SQL" if the user uses the same column from the data table variable to populate two database columns it just inserts one of them and keeps the other one empty. This is not supported by the command today and ...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Lotus Notes Integration

Integration of IBM RPA with Lotus Notes Lotus Notes database/application integration is a key feature for many of our current bots that use Blue Prism Notes is still a commonly used application for many repetitive, manual internal processes
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

PUBLIC api to get Environment Data

IBM Clients and Partners need access to Envinronment Data to upload in a PowerBI or to improve the robot's monitoring For this, we need acess to Envinroment through API.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

maven replacement for res-write-file

The goal is to replace all ant build task to maven. When unzip the ruleapp, the folder is not recognized by J2SE session as a valid ruleset path.
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Add ODM support for Crunchy Postgres

Add ODM support for Crunchy Postgres database managed by Crunchy Data.
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Not under consideration

Possibility of using shared libraries in a custom widget with case manager configuration tool

It would be great if a class that is available in BAW Server, such as shared libraries, could be shared across multiple widget or application and be included with the class loader to avoid duplication.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Customized start page for Viewers

Editors and Contributors can set their preferred page as start page. Please apply this function also to Viewers.
about 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration