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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:

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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,

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  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

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Link More than one Process on Events

Add the ability to link more than one process on the Send/Receive Message events, just how you can link to more than one process from an activity.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Option to make Documentation tab as a default view

We prefer some of our blueprints to be defaulted to the Documentation tab view. It will help us to see the complete list of supporting document links for a specific blueprint right away. Our current setting is that when we open a blueprint, the sy...
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Ability to provide custom annotations with IER container deployment

Ability to provide custom annotations will be useful to customise the deployments , in our case we wanted to customise the deployment to add integrations with service mesh, splunk, dynatrace etc.
9 months ago in Enterprise Records 2 Future consideration

Intuitive Error Handling with Retry Counter

Current Error handling and Recovery do not have building in counter to accommodate the retry mechanism. Can we build in some additional level of retry mechanism and finally
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Enable document downloads at Application group API level in CMOD (Without using ODFolder)

Why is it useful - Currently if any developer wants to do bulk ingestion that is possible via Application Group level APIs, reference - https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/using-load-capabilities-through-odwek However if we want to extract documents...
9 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

For email notifications to be provided to the person who has launched a workflow task, if the workflow task is not completed by the task due date

This would be useful to remind the user that a workflow task has not been completed. This would benefit the user in being able to contact the approver of the task and remind them of their overdue task. This could work by IBM Blueworks sending a da...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

client should be able to customize Advanced Search page in Case Client

As of now, Advanced Search page is not allowed customized(please refer to the screenshot advancedsearch2.png). Sometimes users would like to hide some search condition or add some notes in the page. It is reasonable. But it is not allowed in curre...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add hint on Task Mining Agent to indicate the need of ctrl-clicking application

When using Task Mining Agent, you need to select some applications to start working with it. Once you click on the option to select the application, it's necessary to press Ctrl + Click to perform the selection but this is unclear to a first-time ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Develop Visual Diagram API rest for CoachFlow

There are Visual Model API for Human Service, SCA Service, Integration Service, Rule Service and General System Service BUT : there isn't API for CoachFlow I'd like ask for this implementation, for Process Automating Documentation. Our IBM BPM pro...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Search for processes by user/editor name

I repeatedly get asked the question, how can I search for a group of processes a specific person wrote/edited? We need this information for a variety of reasons, such as: - when someone leaves, seeing which processes they created and edited, so ...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration