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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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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...
over 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...
over 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 (...
over 12 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

Dynamic folder structure based on metadata grouping

Many of our customers are interested in the ability to dynamically group documents based on metadata values or in the form of a hierarchical folder structure. The advantage of this approach compared to a fixed folder structure is that only folders...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration

Need support for OpenJDK

Bell Canada is planning to move openJDK at enterprise level
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Editor User ability to delete other people's comments in the Documentation View

Editor users can deleted other people's comments when viewing the Process Diagram - either in the details pane on the right side or in the Properties dialog box. The Editor user should also be able to delete other people's comments when in the Doc...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

MySql8 should be supported by ODM8.8 and higher version

There is a customer in medical and health industry. They are using ODM8.8 product to build a clinical decision support system. Now the customer are complaining MySql8 is not supported by ODM8.8, even though MySql5.7 is OK. IBM's official website's...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to use color coding for activity links - arrows

There are scenarios where the color of an arrow may have some meaning within a process flow. It would be good to allow users to change the color of an arrow linking different tasks within a diagram
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Ability to span an activity across 2 swimlanes

There are some scenarios where an Activity does not necessarily applies to one Participant. In BWL the swimlane is assigned to a participant name, but there are some requirements where an idea could be assigned to 2 type of participants and visual...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Software that ENGULFS the COVID-19 viruses and germs that are floating in the air. This software/product would be created for personal space, businesses (indoor & outdoor). To have a better idea of this concept, the product would look like an air filter.

This concept is useful so that the World would have some type of normalcy. This product will be plugged in the wall and users will set specific commands to engulf the viruses and germs.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 0 Not under consideration