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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

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Add support for missing Java controls

Some Java applications are not fully supported by the IBM RPA STUDIO recorder today. Elements that we don't have a code-level procedure for preventing the rest of the recorder's interaction with other parts of the application. An example of this...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

IBM BAW on CP4BA plugin to accept same WSDL format of type "document" in container and non container environment.

We have identified an incompatibility with WSDL generated by IBM ODM while importing that WSDL in IBM BAW environment, if the Target environment of the toolkit is set to "TRAD or CON" "Traditional or Container".It was working perfectly as expected...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Provide notification before LTPA token expires

Our Process Servers have been upgraded to BAW 20002. At this release, when the LTPA token expires, users are logged out without notice. In some cases end users have lost information entered into data fields.
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Possibility to change the installation drive of IBM RPA

Nowadays, during the installation of IBM RPA, the user can't choose which driver to install the product, it's set by default as C: drive. Due to that, we could implement this option in the near future since some Infrastructure/DevOps teams don't ...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Tag a task or process as urgent

Gives the possibility to tag a task or process as urgent so we can filter, search and view things to do urgently
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Functionality already exists

Needs of comments historized and cumulatives

When accessing comments, we need a timeline of all comments concerning a workflows or a task to get an overviews of exchanges concerning the subject
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

WebPD: Ability to debug instances running on Inactive snapshot

In an online/connected workflow server environments, Desktop PD has the ability to debug instances running in Active and Inactive snapshots. However with the Web PD, we only have the ability to debug the instances running on the Active snapshot. C...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

User inactivity - logging and automated LDAP role unassignment > 90 days - audit requirements

All (!) companies must fulfill cyber security requirements which are not yet feature in ODM: ISO 27001 In addition, in automotive industryTISAX requirements in addition, companies with critical infrastructure. NIS 2 (EU 2022/2555) and RCE (EU 2022...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Set project security/visibility when publishing to Decision Center

Currently if a project is published or added to Decision Center, by default no security is enforced. When a user publishes a project and before an admin can enforce security on it, all users of DC have access to this project. If project security c...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Having the possibility to export Scripts from Control Center with their schedule to import into a different environment.

If customer has multiple environment he can move Scripts with their schedule to a different environment without uploading and scheduling one by one.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration