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...
Share feedback 8
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

All ideas

    Export of Decision Tables (DT) to Excel should export also the Table formats

    When you have a Format set to your Decision Table column, this format is not being exported when you export the Decision Table. The result may not be usable as such for instance for script operation by the customer, forcing extra editing operation...
    over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    Add an option for Decision table to execute only first instead of all matching rows

    It involves quite some work and sometimes cause confusion (as it depends on the execution mode of the rule task) to implement the requirement to execute first matched row in a Decision Table.It will greately simplify the rule writing if there is a...
    about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

    IBM BAW on CP4BA plugin to accept same WSDL format of type "document" in container and non container environment.

    We have identified an incompatibility with WSDL generated by IBM ODM while importing that WSDL in IBM BAW environment, if the Target environment of the toolkit is set to "TRAD or CON" "Traditional or Container".It was working perfectly as expected...
    over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

    Migrate from MSMQ to IBM MQ system queue provider in IBM RPA

    In situations where MSMQ does not fit the organizational needs in terms of package availability or network complexity, there's the need to use IBM MQ as the IBM RPA system queue provider to work with schedules and processes. Currently, this operat...
    over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

    Ability to Configure Custom Starting Values for Instance IDs and Task IDs

    Request for a configurable option that allows IBM BAW administrators to define custom initial values for Workflow Instance IDs and Task IDs. In the current IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) implementation, all environments start generating In...
    8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Process Admin: Prevent synchronizing users that return in user searches in BAW, BAStudio

    By default, all users returned from a user search are automatically added to the BAW database tables. This behavior can become problematic when a Process Admin user search returns a large number of users, resulting in unnecessary data being insert...
    8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

    Ability to order case variants by maximum duration

    When filtering the model by case variants in Process Mining, you may want to check what's the case that showed the max duration in order to narrow down the flow it took during the whole process. This idea is to create the ability to order case var...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

    Provide mechanism to limit authorization for BAW OnCloud service accounts to specific BAW exposed REST Service endpoints

    Currently when a service account is created in the BAW OnCloud instance, it has access to any out of the box REST endpoints or REST Service that is developed as part of a solution. It would be very beneficial if, when provisioning or after creatio...
    over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Allow for autocorrect/grammar check.

    This would benefit everyone, because it is a small but powerful part of making the processes more sharp and professional. It is really not efficient to have to go through and manually change spellings of things because we can't click on the correc...
    8 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

    make the "at risk" calculations configurable in process portal

    Current behavior In Process Portal, the At Risk indicator is currently calculated using the following logic: At Risk = (Average Historical Time to Complete Task + Current Elapsed Time) > Task Due Date This approach depends on historical average...
    8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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