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,

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  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
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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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All ideas

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    We need a password type for environmental variables

    We would like a password type that obfuscates the password value for environmental variables. We have several services that we call with basic auth with a system user. Developers are not allowed to know production passwords. This means that we hav...
    10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Check status that are "Running" or "Cancelling"

    If there are any problems with the communication between the client and the Server, you may have problems when a bot is running or canceling an instance of a process. The bot will get stuck with these statuses and will not be changed. A good idea ...
    about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Is a defect

    EJB Sessions should be renewable especially when running exposed Human Services.

    We would like to be able to renew an EJB Session for a user. Increasing the timeout as described here ‘https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1JR50708' is not possible, as with many users this would increase the heap size unjustified.
    over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Provide a REST API for audit log per artifact type

    As an admin, I need to be able to provide an auditor all the list of changes that were performed for a specified artifact type
    3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

    Ability to support Complex Object types for custom properties

    As an editor I need to be able to create a custom property like Address which is comprised of: Street Apartment City Country ZipCode
    3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review

    Provide a mechanism that allows to create custom logic required for properties validation

    Properties / Metadata associated to blueprints requires some validation to provide controls and guardrails when Editors are working with these artifacts. As an Admin I want to be able to define the logic associated to different fields that are par...
    3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    Ability to UPDATE multiple glossary values without a Rate limit restriction

    Currently, there is a rate limit documented here. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/blueworks-live?topic=authoring-glossary-valuescategory This restriction is preventing the proper maintenance of glossary values when UPDATES are needed to different cate...
    3 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Needs more information

    Ability to define expiration date of any artifact and a retention policy per artifact

    Part 1: Expiration date As a user I want to be able to determine an expiration date of any artifact that is created: Blueprints, DMN, Process Apps, etc. As a user I would like to have a single view or report where I can see the list artifacts ...
    3 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Planned for future release

    CP4BA should allow script-free updates (IFIX) to allow for automation using ArgoCD e.a.

    We manage environments using ArgoCD in order to automate steps to reduce effort and risk of updates. Until CP4BA 22.0.2 , IFIX installations were done by manually applying YAML files, which was easily ported into GitOps automation for ArtgoCD.In C...
    3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Enable native support for arrays of arrays (nested arrays) within IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) Business Objects.

    This enhancement would allow BAW's JSON Data Handler to directly process and bind JSON arrays containing other arrays (e.g., "productList": [ [ {...}, {...} ], [ {...} ] ]) to corresponding Business Object structures. It is useful because it elimi...
    3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

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