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 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

    Ability to refresh process models in Workflow Center automatically after installing an iFix in Business Automation Workflow (BAW)

    In scenarios where customer has huge of process apps/models, fix is effective only when customers modify the processes in some minor way or when they remove and readd the process app back in Workflow Center.
    over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Allow Renaming and Deletion of Snapshots

    Allow the ability to rename an existing saved Snapshot. Sometimes we may have entered a typo or just want to enter a clearer description of the previously saved Snapshot. Also permit deletion of a previously saved Snapshot. Number of times we sav...
    almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    Missing track functionality from workflow center

    Workflow Center currently miss base functionality that exist in Process Center, making Process Center a necessity from developers even though Workflow Center is far superior in performance. For example, in our environment Process Center takes more...
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

    Windows Authentication Support for CP4BA Database connections

    Currently traditional BAW supports both SQL Server and Windows authentication methods. However, CP4BA only has the SQL Server authentication support. Some organization policies do not allow using SQL server authentication when databases are runnin...
    about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 6 Future consideration

    Provide sorting function for properties

    Currently it is not possible to change the order of the (custom) process properties. As custom fields might be added/removed over time it would be helpful to have a sorting/rearranging functionality so the property fields can be displayed in a mea...
    over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    Automatically requeue jobs that are "hung" in status RUNNING, QUEUED or RETRYING

    Refer to this case : https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500gJ0000041QiyQAE/running-jobs-remain-in-state-ruuning-forever-after-a-network-issue?language=en_US I am running process instance in BAMOE 8.0.5. My process include a REST call in an aync ...
    7 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

    Disable Processing of ALL annotations of documents for DaeJa Viewer

    Content Navigator currently processes all annotations of a document for the DaeJa viewer, giving error messages when Annotations are not having XML format, and maybe more severe problems in case they have XML format, but not the one for DaeJa view...
    about 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

    Creating users, groups and roles by using REST API should not ignore those created in the DC Business Console Administration tab

    The DC REST API to retrieve the user roles registry is: GET /v1/repository/users-roles-registryBut in fact it does not retrieve all the users / roles. It only retrieves " the last configuration file that was uploaded". In fact the documentation ev...
    about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    Web PD: Ability to switch between snapshots when connected to online Workflow Server

    In our BAW environment, our Dev team can connect to online Workflow servers and debug the instances. However, if we need to switch between snapshots: 1. We will have to navigate out of Web PD process inspector 2. Select the application and a new s...
    almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Filter and sort variables in Studio by input/output parameters

    In IBM RPA Studio, there should be an option to filter/sort the Variables window in order to quickly and clearly identify a script's input and output parameters. Currently, the Variables window can only be sorted by variable Type. Adding the input...
    almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

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