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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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It would be helpful to have the ability to access the case comment window and case property window simultaneously, enabling users to easily copy data from the case details page to the comment popup window.

When a user opens the comment pop-up window from the case details or work details page, they should be able to access the property widget or documents tab and seamlessly switch between them. This functionality would enable users to easily copy inf...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Configurable option in the Datacap Application Manager for record keeping

Datacap statistics - When you process documents, Datacap tasks gather statistics that are related to each batch job and saves them in the Engine database of the application.This should be a configurable option in the Datacap Application Manager wh...
17 days ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

Make emails for user invite, expired invite etc configurable so we can remove the name of the admin that invited and direct new user to our support service for any issues

When a user is invited, the name of the admin that invited is sent to the user in the invite. The email specifically say "You have been invited by {this admin name} to join your organization's Blueworks Live account, and "Contact {this admin name}...
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Audit function for Workflow Status Change

When using API to interact with workflow in kie server, there is no out-of-box function on recording the change time/user who did the change e.t.c. Can we add these functions? (One way to achieve it is to enlarge the AUDITTASKIMPL table to include...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Submitted

Feasibility in moving arrows on process diagram

Customer trying to move arrows form one place to another place ( based on business requirement) on process diagram , some time arrows are not moving , or some times when they move arrows diagram is getting messed up. attached screen shots with exa...
5 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Deploying same snapshot without any changes causing issue jni already loaded in another classloader

When we deploy a snapshot and create an instance id, it is able to make a rest call to external service. When we deploy another new snapshot without any changes and creating instance we are seeing jni already loaded in another classloader. Error o...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Under review

IBM Process Mining Simulation with Parallelism

Currently, Parallelism is not supported for the simulation engine in IBM Process Mining. The customer wants it included in IBM Process Mining to analyze such type of processes.
9 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release

Allow asset sharing between BAW and BAA (Business Automation Application)

Customer (Hennepin County) developed BAA apps, including toolkits and templates. They would like to export the BAA artifacts and import them into BAW. Otherwise they will need to recode the same in both BAW and BAA.
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow Users to Add a Custom PVC to the Workflow Process Service (WfPS) Component

Customer has a custom application that requires an absolute path to be specified. This is possible by mounting a custom pvc with the required mountPath. The requirement is to allow customers to add a PVC to the Workflow Process Service component. ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Planned for future release

Improve Performance of "Show counts for all in-baskets" Option, which currently uses expensive getFilterCriteria calls

(REF: TS017813455 - Slower system performance after upgrading to BAW 23.0.2) After upgrading from BAW 22.0.1 to BAW 23.0.2, users are reporting slower performance in loading inbasket. Through TS017813455, it was found that this was due to a differ...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration