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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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Clean pending processes on queue

Possibility to clean pending processes on queue. We identified that in some cases the processes were not executed and remained pending. The same happened with scripts that were running and failed, generating a backlog of pending processes (even if...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Allow Renaming and Deletion of Snapshots

Allow the ability to rename an existing saved Snapshot. Sometimes we may have entered a typo or just want to enter a clearer description of the previously saved Snapshot. Also permit deletion of a previously saved Snapshot. Number of times we sav...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Vault Integration for Postgres RDS Creds in BAW on Container

Customer: Discover Financial Services Product: Business Automation Workflow on Containers version : 22.x onwards Discover Financial Services Design Pattern is to have postgres credentials in vault and pods can fetch the credentials through init co...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

VDS / OUD should be supported on BAW on Container versions

Customer: Discover Financial Services Product: Business Automation Workflow on Containers version : 22.x onwards We are looking for Virtual Directory Server / OUD support on BAW on Container since DFS is using either VDS / OUD. The BAW current ins...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support for shared files in Google Drive

Google Drive actual version is on V3 and IBM RPA uses V2. The new version (V3) supports a few new features, for example, reading/manipulating files that are shared with your Drive account, inside the "Shared With Me" folder. This would be useful f...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow zen to accept custom tokens

We are migrating from traditional BAW to BAW within CP4BA and are facing a blocker with the way authentication is handled within foundational services. Our current flow is as follows:1. There are Java applications are developed and BPM (in WAS lev...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1

Provide Revision History Feature in WebPD

This feature is available in Desktop PD but not available in WebPD. This can be very essential for the developers to see the change history and revert back the code to any prior change point.
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Delete items in queue #SPGI #ClientEngineering #RPA

Being able to delete items with status "New" or "Pending" from the queue. This allows you to stop or shorten some executions where it is not necessary to go on processing items uplodaded in queue
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Workplace - Allow configuration of a default view

Workplace allows you to define custom views but does not allow you to define a default view per user group and/or per desktop. The default view used when opening Workplace should be configurable by user group and/or by desktop.
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Refactor the Input and output mapping for Processes

You recently changed the way we assigned input/output data to a System Task while designing a Process. But honestly this is not good at all : it's a complete waste of time to work with the new design. 1) you cannot see the input/output data of the...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration