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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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Show jpg or png from Documentation tab in Excel export

Currently when a process is exported to Word, the images uploaded in the Documentation tab in BWL are shown in the Word document. When the process is exported to Excel, a link to the image is provided in the Excel sheet 'Attachments'. It would be ...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Function to arrange "References" in policies

We are linking policies to most of our processes to attach necessary documents (for example, mail templates) so that our coworkers can quickly find them when executing the process. Unfortunately there is no function to arrange the documents. The d...
about 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Zoom feature in Designer panel to use smaller text

Zoom feature in Designer panel to use smaller text
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

want the simultaneously windows scrolling down function back (when comparing rule differences)

The old version 8.7.1 DC one can moves Windows on both sides automatically when comparing rule differences, but the new version 8.11.0 DC will only move one side. You have to manually scroll down two windows to the same position on both sides whe...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

BPM User Access Tracking

Need way to track the users logging into applications. Specifically, need a way to track people who are logged into Process Portal. Also need to track the Business Applications used in Process Portal.
about 9 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

Email Connection to Outlook - Only able to connect to Outlook when Outlook Window is open

Email Connection to Outlook - Only able to connect to Outlook when Outlook Window is open
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Decision Center逾時警告或非預期錯誤的提示訊息內容能否友善化,目前的訊息呈現對一些較無程式概念的使用者而言較難以理解。

譬如目前Decision Center在逾時會出現的Timeou警告訊息內容,其中伺服器已回傳逾時錯誤、xhrTimeout、300000毫秒等字眼對於一般無程式概念的Users而言過於艱深,因此希望IBM能夠評估改善這些提示訊息的內容。
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Fix Process Designer to filter out control characters which cause issues in Process Center

If a developer somehow enters a hidden control character, Process Designer accepts it and stores it in the underlying XML for the process model. However, if such a control character is present, Process Center cannot promote the Process Application...
about 9 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Add default OCR setting to Studio

when we use OCR-related commands,We have to select the engine and language each time. Since each user basically uses the same engine and language, this task seems very complicated. Therefore, it would be easier to use the tool if there had opti...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Need improvement in assignment's behavior of "last user in lane" when activity pass through sub or linked process.

Please, bring back the task to last user in lane when using subprocess or linked process A PMR regarding this issue has been submitted by Orange. This PMR as of today is closed, with the indication that the requirement should be submitted as RFE (...
over 11 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration