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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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Allow drag and drop of folders with contents in navigator

End users usually upload large number of files and folders in ICN. Though ICN allows drag and drop of documents, users ae unable to do this with folders. They have to manually select each folder (create, if not available) and upload documents there.
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Recognize automatically selectors

Instead of creating by yourself the selector or use the web inspector to create it, allow Click activities and Type activities (in browser and Desktop) to select the button or field to click or type and identificate automatically the selector.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

HTTP POST calls should be logged

When using the HTTP POST command, it would be useful for the log file to show the raw HTTP request (such as in curl format) so that issues can be easily debugged.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

IBM BAW ENV Variable Cache Size.

CBR (Dutch Driving Agency) are experiencing severe performance problems. They've noticed that a high proportion of the BPEDB Database activity is related to accessing ENV variables. Apparently, the tables LSW_ENV_VAR, LSW_ENV_VAR_SET and LSW_ENV_V...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

ADD IP ADDRESS OF ARSSOCKD TASK TO CRITICAL MESSAGES

When writing messages to the cmod system log application group, add the dns or ip address of the arssockd task that wrote the message. We have multiple started tasks and this information would be helpful at troubleshooting time minimally messages ...
9 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Writing tags in capital first letters

When adding new tag then first letters of each word are automatically converted to a small writing (B into b). This mechanism is awkward when personal names are used in tags. All other glossary entries are allowed to write in capitalising labels, ...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Enhance error messages for debugging

Enhance error messages to contain actual rule that was fired that caused error (Decision table name and row/column if possible). Debugging errors that occur during rule execution is difficult and time consuming. Messages returned from execution an...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Chronological order of document annotations in a grid

When the displayed document has many pages and being collaborated by multiple stages by the multiple users, over a period of document review, various users will end up creating various text annotations throught the document in various pages. It is...
9 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Future consideration

Organization hierarchy for Managers Team in BPM

For current Team Filter Service and Team Retrieve Service, we cannot filter team members for managers team. For example, I want the staff's line manager to be in managers team, the staff is defined at runtime, so the managers team member decided b...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Can we compare two snapshot in Process Designer to check the details level of code

We would like to know if there is any way to compare two snapshots to understand the exact code changes to the lowest level.As far as we know, we can compare only the documentation but nothing else. If there is no way , please let us know if you h...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration