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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

All ideas

Stats break down - functionality to be added

In the Workflow ‘Stats', a feature needs to be built such that, upon filtering, we should be able to get the break-down of Stats, i.e. Count of;1. How many processes have been completed 2. How many approved 3. How many rejected 4. How many are sti...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Ability to add variable as path to script in Execute Script command

Starting from version v30.0.1, Execute Script command automatically loads Parameters from the script being called. Due to that, variables are no longer acceptable in the command's path as they get created by runtime. The idea is to add a flag so t...
4 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Dedicated IBM namespace for SAP Add-On

Initial Situation The customer is currently using an on-premise SAP S/4 HANA system, in which several third-party add-ons are installed. The objects of these add-ons are stored in the respective vendor-specific namespaces. Additionally, there are ...
12 months ago in Content Collector for SAP 0 Planned for future release

RPA integration with Github and Devops

allow RPA bots development to interact with Github
over 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Additional Credential Data

Credential management is more than user and password. This idea is to enhance credential management with additional fields/features Possibility to disregard username. For tokens, etc where only the password applies Add Expiration Date Field Add St...
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Improvement CSP Case Notification

Adding screenshots/pictures in comment field for customer replies: As a large IBM customer we need better CSP case notifications that already contain important information in the subject. Attached an example. This shows that it does not contain im...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

For Document Explorer: Allow a developer to filter which document classes, display name and properties appear when a user clicks add document. Much like using an Entry Template with FileNet and Content Navigator

Allows for better customization for case solutions and only presents the information necessary for the case type being worked.
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

When a bot runtime fails, add a shortcut in the web client to send the error and the error line number to the clipboard

In the web client, looking at a job log, we can click on details to see all the logs. Often enough, we only care about the error message that made the bot crash. Having a button that puts the error line number and the error message on the clipboar...
almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

BAW Support OKTA/SCIM without requiring an LDAP backend.

LDAP is a dated technology. Our organization is moving away from it and toward SCIM. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/25.0.https://bigblue.aha.io/ideas/idea_promotions/new?idea_id=75433933163565974550?topic=notes-known-limi...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add a setting for changing the event manager blackout period date format

There's currently no known way of changing the date format shown in the Process Admin Console for things like the event manager blackout period selector. Ideally this should be determined automatically from the user's time zone or similar exposed ...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration