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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 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
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...

All ideas

Ability to change text size

There should be a capability to adjust text size within activities. In the new modern experience, a lot of text gets cut off
14 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Highlight and select multiple lines of text in an activity

Should be able to highlight / select multiple lines in the activity ox to edit or delete in the modern experience
14 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Adjusting labels on connectors

Should be able to move the labels on gateway connectors to make the words align better in the modern experience. I should be able to free form move the text to be on top or bottom of the connector line
14 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Connector User Experience

Arrows do not auto adjust when dragging activities into a different place in the modern experience. there should be an "align middle" feature that lines activities to center or middle where the arrows would the auto adjust to be straight
14 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Glossary Maintenance

Should be able to delete multiple items in the glossary at a time. There should be a select option to select multiple glossary values to delete instead of line item by line item. Additionally, If a term is deleted from a process blueprint and is n...
14 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Migration path and documentation from CP4BA BAW 25 to BAW 26 on Container including both artifacts and runtime data.

Migration path and documentation for CP4BA BAW 25 to BAW 26 on Container including both artifacts and runtime data.
14 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

ODM on containers to allow additional DSR dedicated configuration settings

The current configuration for dedicated DSR deployments are not enought:for example, jvm options -- different DSR deployments might need to use a different jvm options logging setting -- to troubleshooting a particular deployment, different DSR de...
28 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Remove the link between the DB schema name and DB User, so that the DB Username can be changed

This is to allow for changes to be made to the DB Username and to prevent the validation step using BPMConfig.sh from failing when running DB commands.
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Button to remove all variables with 0 reference

After finishing more robust developments it would be nice to have a button which would automatically delete all variables which in the final status of development have 0 references. Now we have to scroll through the variables panel and remove one ...
10 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Planned for future release

Allow users of persistence addons for Kogito to specify the schema used

Right now the JDBC code in the persistence addons has SQL statements that do not specify the schema. Suppose you have multiple projects that use persistence, and use the IBM proposed setup of having one database with different schema for each proj...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x 0 Planned for future release