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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...

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Blueworks space/diagram creator history

System: Blueworks Live Actor: All Blueworks Live users Currently, the history of who created a space or a diagram is lost as soon as another person edits the space or the diagram. The history of who created the space/diagram is important to us bec...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Add drag & drop to ICN Entry Templates (in addition to "choose file")

Our customer Freudenberg suggest to add a drag & drop feature to the ICN Entry Templates, in addition to the current "choose file" feature to add content. This would provide the user a better experience, similar to Box, where it is easy to add...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

provide the parameters' chnage logic after upgrade

I found the JVM heap size is changed after I upgrade BPM from BPM8.5.6 to BAW(Business Automation Workflow)19.0.0.3.I set a value of 2GB for the JVM max heap size of my AppCluster application Server in my current version of BPM8.5.6.However I foun...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Allow re-link of BO types in REST and Web service

If discovered BOs needed in another context may BOs are moved to a toolkit for reusability. Currently isn't possible to change link in BOs in discovered services.
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Let developer decide if BOs should be created when discovering a REST or Web service

If a developer discovers a REST or Web service needed BOs are created. I this BOs are needed in different context they may moved to a toolkit. If developer has to re-discover REST or Web service, BOs are re-created if system can't find BOs in curr...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Desktop PD custom css attributes wrongly encoded in Web PD

We have an application developed in Heritage Human Service (HHS) with controls of Coaches toolkit and wanted to start to use Web Process Designer. When we open a Coach in Web Process Designer and check a control with custom css attribute specifica...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Content Collector should support current versions of WAS Liberty and document steps to update

IBM Content Collector for Email (ICC) comes with bundled Liberty for ICC web applications. According to SCPR, for ICC 4.0.1.15 only Liberty 20.0.0.6 is supported, no following versions. 4.1.0.15IF2 delivers update to a Liberty 22.0.0.10 version. S...
5 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Future consideration

ODM option to generate WSDL either of "document" or "document-literal wrapped" type.

IBM BAW team 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 ex...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Ability to migrate Parameters from one Tenant to another

When you're using two or more Tenants as a pipeline (i.e. One Tenant for Development, another for Production, etc), it's hard to migrate some objects from one Tenant to another, like Scripts, Parameters, etc. The idea is to have some feature to be...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Using startRecording command on VM with RDP not active

We want a new feature for the "Start Recorder" command. Where the command can record a video for a script that was schedule using the Unlock Machine On, with always On enabled.For now the only way to make this command works is when the RDP connect...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration