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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 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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Some super-user of ADS should have admin rights on all decision projects

Without that super-user authorization, there is no way to truly administer ADS projects. There could be numerous erroneous projects that need to be cleaned up. There could also be situations where an owner/creator of a project leaves - In that sit...
10 months ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Non-admin users need to be able to see who is authorized (and how) for a decision project.

When trying to open the collaborators page of a ADS project, get an error: "User is not authorized to perform this action on this decision automation,..." It seems to me that we might be getting the error because we are not admins on the decision ...
10 months ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Multiple endpoints should be allowed to connect to same next step in Parent service like eclipse Process designer

We have hundreds of toolkits and PA in environment where sometime multi end points in some common toolkits services need to connect to same next step in parent(implementor) service. This is valid business case for many Authors and common toolkits....
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add values() enum methods for Excel dynamic domains

Excel dynamic domains mimics Java Enum only in BOM area for virtual classes. It can be synchronized with excel. It is sometimes needed to get the list of values from this domain to iterate on all the possibles domains.It would be nice to have the ...
about 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

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

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

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

Add REST API (+ ANT Tasks) to delete Groups and Users from the Business Console users registry

When you use the DC REST APIPOST /v1/repository/users-roles-registryto add a new user to the existing list, it worksYou can then see that user in the BC Console Administration / Users tabBut unfortunately you have no APIs to remove users / groups ...
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Leave browser instance open when it hits an error or stopped in debug

Currently when a browser instance hits an error it closes itself. This causes significant pain in trying to develop fast and debug any issues.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Change a non-conformant process variant to conformant directly in the Model conformance pane

When viewing non-conformant process variants in the Model conformance pane in the Model page, users should be able to change / reclassify a non-conformant process variant as conformant. As of now the only option to simulate this action is to "Crea...
about 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Planned for future release