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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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Feasibility in moving arrows on process diagram

Customer trying to move arrows form one place to another place ( based on business requirement) on process diagram , some time arrows are not moving , or some times when they move arrows diagram is getting messed up. attached screen shots with exa...
about 2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Feature enhancement request for Content Manager API to support multi-threading.

We have been consistently experiencing issue with ICN which is related to how the application is utilized. It looks like users are opening multiple browser sessions when using ICN which in turn are creating web container threads deadlocks. These a...
7 months ago in Content Manager (CM8) 1 Future consideration

BAW product DBUpgrade Scripts to support SSL enabled datasource

We are unable to establish connection to backend DB via SSL enabled datasource during DB upgrade script execution as a part of BAW version upgrade . It's a known limitation that upgrade tools connect to the database outside the AppServer context a...
8 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Provide option for viewers to only display properties containing a value

Current limitation: When a viewer displays a process documentation and selects "Show All Details" all property fields are being displayed no matter if they contain a value or not. This is negatively impacting the overview and is not consistent wit...
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Include all ODM Rule Designer plugins in all install methods

As it is, optional plugins must be installed from separate Rule Designer update sites as documented at the bottom of https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/odm/8.12.0?topic=designer-adding-rule-existing-eclipse. This causes extra work for clients and is comm...
9 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

AI Enhancements - Indicate duplicate maps or where maps could link/connect to each other

AI Enhancements - Indicate duplicate maps or where maps could link/connect to each other
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

AI Enhancements - Autogenerate maps from existing documentation, text, or recordings

AI Enhancements - Autogenerate maps from existing documentation, text, or recordings
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

6Only editors & contributors or admins can copy spaces to other Blueworks Live accounts – would like “admins & editors” as an option in "Customization" tab

Only editors & contributors or admins can copy spaces to other Blueworks Live accounts – would like “admins & editors” as an option in "Customization" tab
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Allow asset sharing between BAW and BAA (Business Automation Application)

Customer (Hennepin County) developed BAA apps, including toolkits and templates. They would like to export the BAA artifacts and import them into BAW. Otherwise they will need to recode the same in both BAW and BAA.
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Make UIDs searchable

Currently it is not possible to search for the unique ID (UID) of a process blueprint or any other artifact. As we are using the UID to identify and refer to our processes it would be very helpful if we could use it as well in the search function.
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted