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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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Desktop PD custom css attributes wrongly encoded in Web PD

We have an application developed in Heritage Human Service (HHS) with controls of Coaches toolkit and wanted to start to use Web Process Designer. When we open a Coach in Web Process Designer and check a control with custom css attribute specifica...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Log the query that was performed by the bot in any SQL command error

We build queries in ibm rpa by concatenating ibm rpa variables with pre-build int queries. Sometimes those variables may have incorrect values, and the query will fail. The problem is, IBM RPA will not log query in most cases, and when it does, it...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Role-level based Activity map and Social net

Data mapping is required when uploading CSV and creating processes. We can then assign the resources and roles associated with the activities. Activity map and Social net in "Resource mapping" will be displayed properly if data mapping is complete...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Planned for future release

Process App for SAP O2C (Order to Cash)

We already provide rocess App for SAP P2P(Procure to Pay)https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/process-mining/1.14.1?topic=apps-using-process-app-sap-procure-pay Can we also have it for O2C?
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1

Show ICN Pluigin Names. Plugin IDs and Version information on the Ping page

Currently to gather this information you need to look in multiple places Plugin Name (Display) from the plugins page Internal names from the Ping page Plugin ID's are only available by turning on Debug and restarting ICN to capture it.
about 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

There is currently no way to open a step processor without granting process rights.

ICN attempts to lock the step processor to block other users from accessing it. In this case, the attempt to lock the step processor returns a "[FNRPE2131090068E]Security attributes disallow access." error, because of the lack of process rights. T...
8 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Add support for Azure SQL Server Management Instance for IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW)

IBM BAW currently does not support Azure SQL Server Management Instance. Customers that are currently migrating to Azure containers (AKS) or VMs are keen to use Azure SQL Server Management Instance - managed service - to avoid self-managed Microso...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add Slovenian language in BAW

More and more banks are interested in the BPM platform, and one of the limitations is the inability to localize the Process Portal application into the Slovenian(slovenčina) language. This is already done for CP4BA, i don't know why is not on BAW ...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to move the activity/events around in the Model view

User is requesting to enable the activities show in the model view to be easily movable for easy accessibility/maneuver of the process view. Currently the activities within the Model is not editable and it is causing difficulty in explaining the p...
9 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

Chatbot data source for Dashboard

The Dashboard feature of IBM RPA does not have a dedicate data source for chatbots. Creating dashboards for chatbots that use guided user interaction (i.e. limited options for the user) is simple enough, just using counters is enough. For chatbots...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration