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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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Don’t remove feature RetePlus ordering modes

As the doc days (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/odm/8.11.0?topic=keywords-priority), RetePlus ordering modes are deprecated since OCM 8.6. Have not been removed yet in version 8.11.0 The wish is DON'T REMOVE this feature. It’s inherited from CRE, but...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 5 Functionality already exists

More dashboard elements allowed

Currently only 8 dashboard elements are allowed we should be able to have more like our competitors do
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Functionality already exists

MyWork in-basket when same user belongs to multiple roles

When the user belongs to two roles ('role1' and 'role'2) for the same case solution and the task is sent from 'role1' to 'role2', the same task is shown both in 'role2' in-basket and in 'role1' MyWork in-basket in Navigator.
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Send email notifications when the status of an activity changes.

Examples: Notify the approver he/she has been assigned as an approver. Notify approver the activity is ready to be approved. Notify when an activity has been approved.
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Functionality already exists

Ability to change default sorting of documents attached to a case

When users rely on document attachments for work on cases, they may need to sort them on other fields than the document name.
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Functionality already exists

Eliminate the need to have BWL open before clicking on a link to a process blueprint

Currently, you must have BWL open before you can click on a link to a process blueprint that someone sends you. This is an extra step which causes confusion to users who are not aware that you must first have BWL open before you can click on the l...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Functionality already exists

set variable, substitute variable and not concatenate

When you want to set a value for a variable, in the input of which variable you want to set the variable doesnt substitute the previous variable if it was. It should be a select and not an append.
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Functionality already exists

View on the dates of the process

When filtering for a single practice, it would be useful to see the timestamp of individual activities in the model page in order to avoid to download a CSV to do analysis on the individual case.
11 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Modularize the Case tab in a way that allows some components to be hidden.

The customer needs an easy and quick way to make some items/options, like properties, unavailable to some users to avoid human error. CPFL created a ticket asking for assistance with this, but the support team suggested an RFE or customization due...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Functionality already exists

Improve FileNet UI and UX

The UI needs to be more user friendly to avoid unnecessary clicks to reduce human error and the time spent searching for documents.
6 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 2 Functionality already exists