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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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

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

All ideas

Collection to Json Command

Have a command that turns a collection on IBM RPA into a Json object and vice-versa.
almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

RACI Functionality in Blueworks Live

Blueworks Live is being used for process mapping at my company, but we are starting to use it for our RACI matrixes. I am requesting functionality enhancements to Blueworks Live that will make creating RACI matrixes easier. I am currently using th...
almost 10 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

IBM ODM Helm Support for additional env variables

Support a configs that allows additional Environment Variables be added to helm without manual edit of Helm
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Integrate ODM RuleDesigner with IntelliJ and VS Code

Most organizations today have standardized on IntelliJ IDEA and VS Code for development, along with proprietary and supported extensions, rather than Eclipse. Using IntelliJ or VS Code would also make it easier to fully leverage Copilot features—s...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Swimlane actor fallback and recovery mechanism when stored user is no longer valid

Provide a fallback and recovery mechanism when a stored swimlane actor becomes invalid to prevent process instance failure. Description In BAMOE 8.x, swimlanes retain and reuse the actor (user) who previously completed a task within the same lane....
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Under review

Requesting to include Artifact ID in the artifact change grouping in the Blueworks Account Activity Reporting API

Requesting to include Artifact ID in the artifact change grouping in the Blueworks Account Activity Reporting API. We encounter duplication records in Activity log API extract. The assume duplication records show the same data of 2 different activ...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 4 Planned for future release

Add Support for Island Enterprise Browser

The Island Enterprise Browser is not currently a supported browser in IBM RPA. Several customers are now migrating to Island as their corporate standard and need to port their existing automations to work with it. Native support in commands like "...
7 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Allow new installation from scratch on new server with latest fixpack installer.

Allow new installation from scratch on new server with latest fixpack installer. The product got its last release 4.0.1 eleven years ago. Since then, only new fixpacks have been released. Currently first installing the release 4.0.1 using this old...
7 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Is a defect

Process Versioning in BAMOE 9.3

Considering a scenario where I have a long-running process workflow, such as "hiring," with active process instances. Then, if I create another version, "hiring1," how do I handle the client code from which I need to trigger the REST API's, consid...
7 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

Allow for object store mapping procedure in Online snapshot installs

Previous Case Manager users who have Case solutions with solution artifacts (stored searches, email templates, etc) outside of their DesignOS are unable to do solution deployments via online snapshot install because the online install process skip...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration