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 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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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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    Create Decision Center Group with Specified Permission

    We are successfully deploying ODM 8.12.0 Helm Charts in our managed Kubernetes environment.No Issue here. As per the instructions, we are using "group-security-configurations.xml" with Helm Chart to successfully create Groups/Users in Decision Cen...
    6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    Display user who completed task in multi-instance loop

    When a task is a multi-instance loop with a complex flow condition, there is no distinction between whether the task was closed by the system or the user, because in both cases the Process Inspector indicates the system as the person who closed th...
    6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Task to be visible to all actors (team of actors) till action taken by any one of them

    The customer is using BAW for multiple processes. They have team of actors (approvers) at every step in the flow. Current behavior: When any actor from the team, opens the article from the TODO list, the article disappears from the TODO list of ot...
    6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Allow the approver in the flow to take action on bulk of items

    The customer is using BAW for multiple tasks. About 300 articles are created every day and may existing articles are edited. The flow has many approvers and one of them being the taxation team. Articles created by every department will have a taxa...
    6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Bulk creation / edit of article - Each article triggers a flow

    Similar to transaction systesms (like bank), where they allow us to download a template, fill the template with details for multiple transactions and upload in one go. This ends up triggering multiple transactions. The customer is using BAW for pr...
    6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Allow flow approvals over email

    The customer is using BAW for multiple tasks in their environment. The actors (approver) in the flow gets email notification when a task is waiting for their action. The actor then has to use the process portal to act on the TODO list. The custome...
    6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Add the ability for the Link Control to rename the file downloaded if it's used to open a file in a new tab

    Dears, in the <a></a> html it can be used to open or download files if it's content as base64 is based to the <a> html tag and having the attribute "download" which is used to rename the downloaded file to whatever we need its na...
    6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Configuration option to default filter to "All Types" in Decision Center

    I'm reaching out regarding the filter settings in Decision Center. Currently, the filter is persisted for each user, but there's no option to default it to "All Types" for all users or branches. Could you please consider adding a feature to allow ...
    6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    Provide an equivalent Machine Learning Integration ability in ODM 9.0 & 9.5 to that currently found in ADS

    The existing Machine Learning Integration ability in ODM v9.0 & v9.5 is deficient for our needs as it only supports models deployed into IBM Cloud Pak for Data. We are looking to integrate both rules and model into a single decision management...
    6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

    Ability to process dates in milliseconds from the data set

    Considering that some Excel files may convert the dates into milliseconds, this idea is to allow Process Mining to import the data set to be imported with dates set in milliseconds.
    6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

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