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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:

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

All ideas

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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...
almost 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Provide REST RES API or ant task to collect XUDump

Customers need the ability to collect XU dumps via REST API or Ant task programmatically. This is typically needed for performance tuning and debug and the current manual interface does not provide the ability to do so within a short interval of t...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Show last 6 chars of OAUTH token ID in Admin->Account Information -> Blueworks Live API page

When managing OAUTH tokens, the admin can only see the name and date of the token. It would be very helpful if the last 6(?) characters of the token ID was displayed so that an unambiguous ID of a specific token can be made
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Add row to the table with no side effects like onChange event triggered without a reason

This is a request to simply the adding of rows to a table without the triggering of the onChange event without a reason For a simple use case where a data needs to be added to a table, you need: * a temporary variable to copy the content of the ta...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Future consideration

Remove this issue on future versions.. Cannot attach

I often come across with this error: Cannot attach 'main.wal' to debugger 'net.pipe://localhost/debugger/2/6904/1' I have this message right after an system exception while debugging. After that error it cannot be ran anything, until you close and...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Is a defect

BAW Content Management - Ability to update document properties using JS API while using addVersion() method or a separate JS API

We currently using LiveConnect API to invoke Java packages from JavaScript to perform document property updates. LiveConnect feature is deprecated from BAW 19 version. We are trying to use .addDocument(String type , String name , String fileLocati...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

RES Console to support security config per multiple exec servers

This issue has become urgent as USAA failed a Security Audit, due to ODM RES security limitation. Customer has 5 Rule Execution Servers, each pertaining to different business partners. RuleApps for all 5 exec servers are configured to a single RES...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Repairing the "Mouse Command" Activity more specially "Point" parameter

I come across that this activity its not actually working as expected and I made a simple module to recalcuate the screen resolution. Its worth it if there is not avaiable selectors.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Is a defect

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

BAW Create a new BPM Project Application or Toolkit Branch from scripting command

It is possible to create a new Project Application or Toolkit Branch (aka Track) from the BPM classic Workflow Center console, as described in the product Knowledge Center: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS8JB4_20.x/com.ibm.wbpm.admin...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration