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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).


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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...
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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Possibility to download social net in svg format

We are missing the option to download the social net in svg (xml) format. Description of the feature The download should include the graphical representation of the social net and the legend. The download should reflect the current selection in th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

To be able to highlight all activities and add the task type in bulk rather than having to do this individually

This is time consuming having to add the task type to the activity individually, This would benefit all editors, this could work by using the marquee select function to highlight all activities needed.
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Custom length/range of horizontal axis of line chart widget in analytic tab

When using the line chart widget in the analytic tab, there are always blank spaces at the end of the chart. The useful part (lines) only occupies the one-third of the images. Can we set the length/range of the horizontal axis of the line chart to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

IBM Task Mining - Audit page - IBM Process Mining to include more Start/End date filter options.

Currently, users need to filter the start/end date for the task recording. In many scenarios, users must track the day they publish a Task from TM to PM. It would be interesting to add, on this page, the possibility of the Start and End date appli...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Need ability to rearrange columns in search results in ICN

Users require ability to rearrange columns in IBM Content Navigator (ICN) document search results by dragging them left or right. Also, need ability to add and remove columns from search results without having to click "Results Display" button in ...
about 5 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Create Ability to control permissions related to BWL Glossary

Requesting a feature that allows BWL Admins to dictate which account users can create new Glossary values. Currently Contributors/Editors can type in items, and if there are typos or extra spaces, it will create two separate terms. We are requesti...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Shortcuts to processes from one space to another

Ability to create shortcut links to processes from one space to another space. This allows for multiple definitions/perspectives of space management but prevents from having to create additional blueprints to create links to those processes.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Enable the local time zone settings for timestamp "Recent activities" & "Last login"

For now, the timestamp of the "last login" is following the server's timezone setting and it for Recent activities is fixed as UTC. It is natural for Japanese(and other region's) clients to want to use their own timezone, is it possible to make Re...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Allow only single session logon

Banking customer has security requirement that allow only single logon to the web based system. The application must not accept / allow concurrent login more than 1 session to reduce security beaches. Currently BAW traditional and container allow ...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

It would be good if the wording of an activity is not obscured when a task type is added, such as 'User Task', 'Decision Task', 'Service Task' etc. The wording of the activity should shift, so that it begins after the task type is displayed.

This would benefit everyone who uses Blueworks, so that they do not need to hover over an activity in order to accurately read what the activity is. It should work by automatically populating the wording of the activity to begin after the task typ...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration