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).


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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...
Share feedback 7
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
Share feedback 0

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Migration of completed instances of older snapshots to the latest active snapshot

Minor fixes may be made and the latest snapshot installed on the Workflow Server.The old snapshot should be deleted from the housekeeping perspective, but it is not possible to migrate instances that have already been completed in the old snapshot...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

See a breakdown of property details when exporting processes to MS Excel

When you export processes to Word documents you are able to see a breakdown of the different property details for each activity, but when the same processes are exported into Excel it does not provide the same level of detail for each activity. Th...
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

To increase space export limit

In BWL we have an option to export the space in the single excel file, but the current limit set is up to 3000 artefacts. We understand that this limit has been set post testing to ensure that running such reports would not impact the system perfo...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Readability of process names

The process overview shows names shortened / truncated. The names are only fully displayed for a single process via mouse over. There is no way to make the names of all processes completely readable.Proposed Feature: Create a way to fully display ...
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

enhance windows client hold processing from system load folder

when selecting a specific load from the System Load and requesting it to show holds, it should also list implied holds. Release Holds option should have the ability to remove implied holds
8 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration

Clarify the expected format for timestamps

As the expected format options aren't documented, this leads to too much guessing and trial/error. Especially confusing as it appears that the syntax is closer to Java (e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1459656/how-to-get-the-current-time-i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

External webservice Call with ANY is not supported

As part of migration from BPM 8.6 to BAW 21.0.3, imported the latest twx file (production deployed twx file) into the newly set up BAW 21.0.3 environment. After successful importing, converted all components under BPD, UI AND Service Conversions. ...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Combining Purging procedures in IBM Business Automation Workflow for Indexing & Instances

IBM Business Automation Workflow Customer requirement is to combining the BPMProcessInstancesPurge command and the indexTablesCleanup command into one operation to avoid two steps and eliminate downtime
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to retain column re-sort and re-sizing in Workplace

In the Heritage Portal, a user was able to resort columns, claim a task and return to the saved search list. When they returned, the columns still maintained the sort that was in place prior to claiming the task. In the new Responsive Portal, the ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Allow "Instance owners" team for a BPD to be changed like the other "Expose to" teams for a BPD, for example via the Admin console.

Currently, the "Instance owners" team that can be defined on a BPD can only be changed through a snapshot deployment. Other teams that the BPD is exposed to, like process starters, can be changed via the Admin Console. Please add the "Instance own...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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