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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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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

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.
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Delivered

Ability to remove from the Recycle Bin on BC

This would allow customer to remove inappropriate versions of rules, for instance if a rule contain some Sensitive Information that should not be there for security reasons (such as Personal Information) and may even be required to satisfy some re...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Delivered

WebPD slow down Autoscrolling (horizontal/vertical)

Autoscrolling (horizontal/vertical) during modelling is too fast - not useful. Possibility to set speed manually
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 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
about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 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 ...
almost 5 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

BPM should upgrade logging framework from log4j to log4j2

BPM is still using log4j version 1. Version 2 has been out for a few years now and has performance improvements and other improvements in it. The logger configuration file has a different syntax in version 2.
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Break Points For Debugging

Most IDE has break points as they are very useful for debugging purposes.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Ask for automatic column resize activation in BC

In Business Console, Column Auto-Resize modus is not adapted to very very large decision tables and is default activated. In addition, reorganize all sizes once the table is opened is time consuming.
almost 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Delivered

Functionality required to extract a report with list of maps along with the archived date (all spaces)

Functionality required to extract a report with list of maps along with the archived date (all spaces) This report will help us to clean up the Blue works diagrams by deleting diagrams which are no longer required by the business
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Delivered