Skip to Main Content
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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

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...

All ideas

Showing 413

Web designer click and drag gives ugly results

When moving items around on the Web Designer canvas, lines get redrawn incorrectly. See attached screenshots for before and after.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

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...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Eclipse designer has short session timeout

I need to login to the Eclipse designer for the cloud environment several times per day. Rather than enhance security, it might even reduce security by encouraging developers to choose short passwords! It's not needed because my workstation is sec...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Web Designer has incorrectly-sized code editor window on first load

When I open up my web process designer to edit a coach view at start the day, the coach view always opens as shown in the attached screenshot, with huge gaps between the Behavior window and the bottom panel, and the same is true for the Code window.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Customize Portal Dashboard Process Label

We would like to be able to change the Processes Label in the process portal dashboards. With this change, it would be possible to name the "Proccesses" with the name that the client desire.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

BPM ENvironment Dashboard

We would like to see a Dashboard that shows how our environment is performing over the month/6 months etc. CPU utilization, Calls per hours, Peak Load times etc. This is going to be of immense help as we plan on bringing in more users/use cases to...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Indicate links to archived process maps

Can you provide a highly visible indicator when a process diagram is linking to an archived process ? We want our users to make sure their process links are current. Currently, it is almost impossible to know when looking at a process map if any l...
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

To make / Enable Printing from a Documentation view more effective for viewers

Printing from a Documentation view is not effective (Viewers are not able to do Word exports so this is the only option)ocumentation view to be able to be printed:See all the fields that are completeNot include empty meta-data fileds Documentation...
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 6 Not under consideration

The user's TimeZone should be used in Business Console

The customer timezone (the client machine timezone) is being ignored in the timeline on the Business Console. So if we have a DC Server running in the US, and a client connecting from Japan or from China, when he/she creates a new artifact in the ...
almost 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

To enable Delete option in archive section , to delete the training spaces for the staff leaving the Bank

Delete option is not getting list for training spaces in the archive section. We require this option to delete the training space of editors who are leaving the bank (for whom we know for sure that a restoring will not be required)
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration