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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:

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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,

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  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...

All ideas

Move Gateway Label

Want to be able to move label for gateways. Cannot move it at all.
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Move activity label in any direction

Want to be able to move label anywhere. Currently can only move horizontally or vertically, but not both.
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Allow users the ability to set the default number of tasks

Our users would like the ability to set a default number of tasks. Currently, saved searches allow them to select 25, 50 or 75 tasks per page. They would like that to be a part of their profile so that they do not need to reset it each day.
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Flexible Cleanup of BPM DurableMessages

IBM BAW provides a command for removing BPM Durable messages.BPMDeleteDurableMessages command:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS8JB4/com.ibm.wbpm.ref.doc/topics/rref_bpmdeletedurablemessages.html BPMN Processes can often have an extend...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support multiple case versions running simultaneously in the same BAW instance

1. Case instance 1 started when there is only snapshot 1 deployed in BAW, activityA started, it triggered BAW process instance A created under snapshot 1. And another activity "activityB" is waiting for starting depends on preconditions. 2. If fou...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Planned for future release

Delete functionality using Keyboard

Now to delete any elements in BWL (e.g. Activity, Gateway, Events) we have to right click to use "Delete" option. It will be helpful and useful when "Delete" icon in the keyboard can be used for any deletion functionality. Please check and conside...
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

DC property to keep only the more recent reports and delete other ones

When we do automated test with Decision Center REST API, the number of reports can increase quickly. Limiting the number of reports with this property will help to keep the system stable (BDD, UI, AS ...).
about 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

A large Datacap customer want s to add database connection pooling to the product It appears we may be able to use .NET's connection pooling ability by merely adding the following to the DB connection string: ;Pooling=true;Min Pool Size=<x>;Max Pool Size=<xxx>; " We need DEV/ENG to test this and provide support if the test achieves the desired results.

In order for an enterprise application to scale, connection pooling is needed.
about 3 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Need a downgrading process

We do have an upgrading process for PM and TM:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/process-mining/1.14.1?topic=environments-upgrading-process-mining However, for business reasons, such as a function disabled/changed in the new version, a client may want to...
about 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

Process Monitor Data for Exporting

Export Process Monitor data into csv or xls for reporting.
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration