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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

All ideas

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CHANGE REQUEST - Interface WorkBasketDefinition

Our team uses the interface WorkBasketDefinition to users management in the workbaskets. However, we have a time out problem when the workbasket has a big list of users. The effort is large but we hope to do this in a future release as explained h...
over 12 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 7 Not under consideration

Ability to discard library item changes

Goal The idea is to have a clear and correct history of the library item changes. Current functionality Imagine that the developer makes an unwanted change to the library item. The developer then chooses the undo option and undoes those changes. H...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Activity details enhancement

We want to be able to view and print a process diagram showing activities with some of the related information visible on the diagram. The current Blueworks mechanism for doing this is unusable for more than one piece of information.
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 5 Not under consideration

508 Issue - Page Widgets do not contain semantic headings

Originally opened as PMR TS002789830 Most likely affects all Page Widgets, although 508 testing specifically focused on Case List page widget which is used for Search results. The Issue: Tabbing into pages (page widgets), heading is not read out t...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Attach to window when using "Start Browser" action

When working with websites, there are many time when regular browser actions do not work, so window actions are needed, such as send keys (not webkeys). When using Start browser the window is not attached and it causes a conflict if another action...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Not under consideration

Create option to connect to MongoDB through SSL for Self-Signed Certificates

The option to connect to an external MongoDB for Process Mining is vital for a larger workload, but to be the most secure, providing the option to connect through SSL while using a self-signed certificate should be available.
about 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1

Moving ENVs and servers along with library artifacts

TS002787495 When moving a library artifact, if that artifact or its dependency have reference to environment variable or server, this settings are not moved because they are not library items. The result is broken binding after the move. The devel...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

New languages support in IBM Navigator

IBM Navigator already supports a lot of languages (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/content-navigator/2.0.3?topic=navigator-language-support-content), but there is a need from clients in CEE to have their local languages supported as well. They are loo...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Paging in import wizards for ENVs and Servers

Case TS002781598. If the environment has a lot of applications and toolkits, the timeout can occur in first page of import wizard when importing servers or environmental variables in application or toolkit settings in Web Process Designer. Current...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Unique Naming for Downloaded and Exported Files

When downloading files from the tool. The file names should be unique where the content is unique. Request is to add Diagram and Documentation to the file names. Example: (Process Name) Diagram.(xxx) and (Process Name) Documentation.(xxx). Current...
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration