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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 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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Goals are stuck in edit mode - eeek!

Why is it that the goals are stuck in edit mode? I can edit the Description area in Space Details and then view the text in display mode. However, goals only display in edit mode. It is ideal to see the full text of the goal after entry. I'm not s...
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Functionality already exists

Snapshot Locked and Linked Records

Snapshot Enhancements- When creating a snapshot of the model it needs to include a locked and linked copy of the artifact and application records. All linked to the same snapshot for that time period. - Unpublishing Snapshots to be managed by arch...
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under consideration

Admin and User Customizable Library View(s)

The community needs the ability to obtain and share the content in many various library views and a better organized method on the favorites view. For more detailed explanation and examples see the attachment.
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under consideration

User Preferences – Provide user defined settings for activity numbering and space ordering

User Request the ability to order and save their libraries in their account based on numerical values and sort option.
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Not under consideration

Ability to set properties on outbound JMS messages

FITS MR1021116814 FITS Requirement Type: Feature/Function Using IBM BPM 7.5 and using the supplied JMSMessage capability to send messages to JMS to an existing application. The target application expects a CorrelationID to be present. This is a st...
over 12 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

Transaction Integrity

FITS MR092011286 FITS Requirement Type: Product –To ensure transaction integrity, the task submission in BPMDB should be in the same transaction with operations in application database. •Coach submission and its follow up service can be in a globa...
over 12 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

WLE 7.1: Array of elements not allowed in the WSDL signature of a response

FITS MR0830113059 FITS Requirement Type: Feature/Function Array of elements not allowed in the WSDL signature of a response. (E.g.: Organization [0…n] cannot be a part of the WSDL signature. It has to be wrapped in another element Organizations (...
over 12 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

Out-of-box APIs/Java APIs to read default properties(SLA) set for a business process/node

This is useful to understand the default value that has been set to the process/node properties before instantiating them. For example: SLA value of a node or a business process.
7 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Future consideration

Capability to provide release deployment report as OOTB API

REST API as part of Decision Center should be provided to get the data for all the releases deployment to dev/test/production environment. This API should give details on all the releases of all the projects that are deployed to Rule Execution Ser...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Future consideration

Dynamic folder structure based on metadata grouping

Many of our customers are interested in the ability to dynamically group documents based on metadata values or in the form of a hierarchical folder structure. The advantage of this approach compared to a fixed folder structure is that only folders...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration