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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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Web Designer Code editors need better JavaScript linter

All of the JavaScript code editors in the Web Designer have very simple JavaScript code checking, which means they cannot detect certain syntax errors. This means developers have to rely on visual inspection to assess code correctness, which is ve...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Create a BAW inbound Web Service to accept http request using a valid custom XSD

No description provided
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

View Participant when exporting to word for linked processes

View Participant when exporting to word for linked processes. Only able to see for who the participant for an activity that's not a linked process.
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

To add a feature to establish quality gate, something similar to sonar qube gating for java

By having this, we can ensure the quality of code developed by developer, also to have test coverage , further this also could streamline the process to business user
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Add support for HTTP Reqest Delete Method with Body Payload

Currently the HTTP Request object for the DELETE method does not support the body info. The RFC for REST does not explicitly say that a body is forbidden. But the IBM DBA Rest API does require a body payloyd for some of its API for DELETE Methods ...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Enabling Kerberos Auth Mechanism in PFS 19.0.0.3 to External Elastic Search

No description provided
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Add support for filtering email messages by content type

Add support for filtering email messages by their content type (HTML, plain text) in the emailApplySearchFilters command.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Add support for the POP3 protocol

POP3 is currently not supported.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Provide a log file showing all the artifacts being deployed

When deploying a Decision Service from the Business Console, and taking a Deployment Snapshot, the deployment snapshot will contains all rules / artifacts in the project being deployed. Including for instance rejected rules that are available in t...
almost 8 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Allow links to be shared in checklist templates

When creating a checklist template you are only afforded the option to attach documents. It would be quite helpful if links to one or more supporting documents could be provided, preferably at the task level. Placing links elsewhere would be accep...
about 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration