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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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Build a Z OS Connector - the transactional cores of IBM

This connector is crucial for financial entities. Most IBM FSI Clients have Z OS and it would be very useful to have a connector to extract that data.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Future consideration

To add "Business Unit" field in "Invite New Users"

Now we have this "Business Unit"field in the "Update User settings field" in Admin tab. But if we have this "Business Unit" field in the "Invite New Users", it will be helpful and will be more effective. It will save more time, when we have to add...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

During process design and debugging, you can see the log like eclipse development

When eclipse develops Java program debugging, you can directly see the log below. It is suggested that BPM process design also has such a function, and you can directly see the output log.
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enable Localization in Instance Names and Task Names

Enable Localization in Instance Names and Task Names. We have a requirement where french task names should be displayed to french users and English task names to be displayed to English users. However IBM BPM does not allow localization for instan...
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Process Touch Time

When performing process improvement exercises it would be useful to compare the actual touch time of work to the cycle times for process steps that are allowed by the business to get the work done. This comparison view could help show through data...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

We are looking auto selection feature if there is only one value in the selection list of single select control of bpmui tool

We are looking auto selection feature if there is only one value in the selection list of single select control of bpmui toolkit.
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Activity Hover Text

Would like to have a hover text functionality on activities and events that when you hover over them it shows the description, any "problem" added and the value add value selected on that activity. This function should be one that can be turned of...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Pool Enhancement

Based on my previous request to add pools and response being that there were pools. I did research based on the response and would like to add some enhancements to make the pools better. Pools are currently only represented using send/receive even...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Certify and support Datacap Desktop as a hosted application on Citrix Server

We have users all over the world. They all use Citrix Workspace to access many applications which also includes our Datacap Desktop implementation. Our Citrix Servers farm is hosted in AWS next to our Datacap Taskmaster and Rulerunner servers, Fil...
almost 4 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Provide an administration capability to either disable or ability to customize the expiry length of the "Activate Account link to invited users

Currently, an email is sent out to users to start working within a BlueworksLive account. Some times, users miss the email and this email has an expiration time. Administrators have to go back to the administration page and re-send invitation. Thi...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration