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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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DE:Rule Execution Engine should provide metrics about rule evaluated/fired/disabled/exception info after execution (Java Lib)

When we run rules using the ODM API from a java application, the API should provide the metrics of what rules fired/evaluated/disabled/exception for every invocation.
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Delivered

BPM Process Portal Improvements

Watson Health uses BPM to implement internal processes to support compliance and control user access. Watson Health personnel use Process Portal to interact with these processes.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Starting an activity (process) directly displays the process UI

Now, the user starts a process and needs to click again to open the process interface, which is fine in Workplace and Portal, but in Case Client: 1. The user initiates an activity (process) 2. The user can only see the task after clicking "work"...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

To provide an option using Decision Center API and RES REST API to specify the custom RuleApp and Ruleset version instead of using the default versioning policy

We have created a new deployment configuration in decision center for which the "Ruleset version policy" is set to "Define the version numbers" . Hence every time we deploy , we set the version number manually depending on the type of release ( ma...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Delivered

Bots invoked using the Asynchronous API without a process wrapper

For my bot scripts, I want to tick an "Expose Bot through API' check box to automatically create a process wrapper to expose the bot for the Async API. This would save me a lot of time.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Display Zoom Renders IBM Blueworks Practically Unusable

During my initial meeting with customers it was indicated that the display of Blueworks Live models was very difficult to read. As such during the next session I zoomed via my display setting which renders Blueworks Live practically unusable.
about 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Delivered

Support unstructured DBs on IBM BPM such as Postgres, MongoDB

We want to use unstructured DBs on IBM BPM such as Postgres, MongoDB etc
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

Exchange email connection not working with Office365

• Exchange email connection not working with Office365
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Installing version 21.0.2 using "custom" does not work

Installing version 21.0.2 was only successful when choosing "complete" version. Using "Custom" and removing "Launcher" resulted in an error about the service not beeing able to start in the end of setup
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Content Navigator auto-reload of plugins

IBM Content Navigator (ICN) loads configured plug-ins when it starts. If a plug-in is not available at ICN start time or fails to load initially, it just remains in a failed state and users are presented with error messages. This will happen, for ...
over 4 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered