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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).


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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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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.
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 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.
almost 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...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Functionality already exists

Allow change Owners of processes

For the version after v1.13, we can not change the owner of a process/project. Can we allow it? I know it is possible to change the owner of an organization.
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Add Merge & Split action on Document Widget from Case Client

From the document widget in the case client, the business user can't make a merge and split on a document because the action in the context menu is not implemented. This function is available in the "browse" section.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

Bulk cleanup of task and process instances

There are some cases in which task and process instances are created and left abandoned.It can then be visually completed and deleted using Process Inspector.It is also possible to complete and delete them using the REST API below. /rest/bpm/wle/v...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Functionality already exists

Enhancement of the REST-API to filter rules based on metadata

We use the REST interface to display rules and tables from the Decision Center in the customer's standard applications. Only a certain part of the rules is of interest, never all of them. Therefore, only those rules that are relevant should be ret...
almost 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Functionality already exists

Add new filters

it will useful to have the possibility to filter for: Processes only with all activities in rangeProcesses that are active in the time rangeProcesses that have recorded at least one change of status in the period
6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Parameter in Control Center for insert OCR/Captcha API-key

The Control Center can have an OCR and Captcha Api-Key configuration parameter, for all scripts to use automatically without the need to enter command by command Today if the customer has a large number of bots, they need to update command by c...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Artificial intellegence robotic application for cooking, cleening toilets etc etc

Artificial intellegence robotic application powered by quantum battery for every type of kitchen- cooking based applications operated in every types of languages etc and for cleaning purposes Dress washing etc useful in hotels, expensive homes etc...
7 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists