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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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User Preferences – Provide user defined settings for activity numbering and space ordering

User Request the ability to order and save their libraries in their account based on numerical values and sort option.
almost 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Not under consideration

twperfsvr.war (and product in general) should not use external internet DTD references

The Support Node (Performance Server) would not start for us on BPM 8.0 and BPM 8.5 due to a combination of product references to external internet DTD URLS and some oddities in our own firewall implementation. The BPM product should not refer to ...
over 9 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

CHANGE REQUEST - Interface WorkBasketDefinition

Our team uses the interface WorkBasketDefinition to users management in the workbaskets. However, we have a time out problem when the workbasket has a big list of users. The effort is large but we hope to do this in a future release as explained h...
over 10 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 7 Not under consideration

Need improvement in assignment's behavior of "last user in lane" when activity pass through sub or linked process.

Please, bring back the task to last user in lane when using subprocess or linked process A PMR regarding this issue has been submitted by Orange. This PMR as of today is closed, with the indication that the requirement should be submitted as RFE (...
about 11 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Ability to set properties on outbound JMS messages

FITS MR1021116814 FITS Requirement Type: Feature/Function Using IBM BPM 7.5 and using the supplied JMSMessage capability to send messages to JMS to an existing application. The target application expects a CorrelationID to be present. This is a st...
about 12 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

Transaction Integrity

FITS MR092011286 FITS Requirement Type: Product –To ensure transaction integrity, the task submission in BPMDB should be in the same transaction with operations in application database. •Coach submission and its follow up service can be in a globa...
about 12 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

WLE 7.1: Need a method to access inbound HTTP header

FITS MR0830113050 FITS Requirements Type: Feature/Function Provide a way to access inbound HTTP header
about 12 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

WLE 7.1: Array of elements not allowed in the WSDL signature of a response

FITS MR0830113059 FITS Requirement Type: Feature/Function Array of elements not allowed in the WSDL signature of a response. (E.g.: Organization [0…n] cannot be a part of the WSDL signature. It has to be wrapped in another element Organizations (...
about 12 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration