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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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Notifying User that a Process or Space has been shared.

In BWL, I have shared a Space, and or a Process by 'adding users'. My assumption was that they would receive a notification with a link (just like you would in Box). But this does not happen. I now have to go back to the process or space and captu...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Process Time Issue

Hi Team To preform high level analysis on each Blueworks Live process, we really heavily on the Microsoft excel exports of process data exported via the 'Microsoft Excel Process Data (.xls) V2.0' export feature. We have encountered an issue with t...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Archive raw data from rules simulation execution for future analysis

When a rules simulation job is executed on RES (rules execution server), the raw data results used to calculate the metrics for the KPI report should be archived so that users can conduct further analysis beyond what the KPI report provides.
over 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Limit Export capabilities for the users

Hi, Can we have permissions for the export of Decision Tables to Excel files:1. Can export single table(s)2. Can export tables in folders and subfolders
over 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Archive ruleapps created for a rules simulation for re-use

When a ruleapp is created under the rules simulation feature, there should be an option to save the ruleapp for future use.
over 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Process Performance - Gantt chart view - Provide option to configure the view based on SLA rather than historical data.

Customer has requested to make the Process Performance Gantt chart configurable so that instead of taking historical data, View can be presented using the SLA.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Client unable to log in when a session already exists from a different host

Need a method to disconnect a client from the control room without having to reboot the Client/Control Room servers or restart services. Ideally this would be something the user could do from the client without the need for administrative help.
over 6 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 0 Functionality already exists

Self-service UI to manage the Activation Spec

Self-service UI to manage the Activation Spec
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Workspace Filter for Followed Processes

Within a workspace there should be a way to filter for only the processes that are marked as Follow. It could simply be an additional option in the filter dropdown.
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Eclipse designer has short session timeout

I need to login to the Eclipse designer for the cloud environment several times per day. Rather than enhance security, it might even reduce security by encouraging developers to choose short passwords! It's not needed because my workstation is sec...
about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration