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 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...
Share feedback 8
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
Share feedback 0

All ideas

    Ability to Add Custom Templates

    As Blueworks is a tool that is used across our company, different departments projects are mapped from a specific view point or with a specific focus on how the Customer interacts with the process, or how a System functions etc. This leads to diff...
    over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

    Old BFM (BPEL) APIs available with valid and complete OpenAPI specifications on BAW swagger.

    Currently BAW swagger only offers only BAW Process/Task API (OpenAPI standard) whereas BPEL, HTM and BFM are currently not available on BAW Swagger definition. With the enhancement customer can make use of the standard OpenAPI definition available...
    over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Allow use of Postgres or other lightweight development database with IID/UTE for BAW

    This would speed up the development process so that BAW developers would not need to rely on their system administration team to install local DB2 on each workstation for a local development database. Postgres would be a popular choice but any lig...
    11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

    Provide user-centric API which can show "direct" memberships to BPM "groups"

    We want to be able to provision some new users who will have the same authority and visibility as some existing users.We are currently relying on a SQL query provided by our IBM Support Engineer, and are aware this isn't a "supported" technique be...
    11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Allow the descriptions added to metadata fields to be viewable in Analysis Mode

    Currently you have to exit Analysis mode to see the descriptions that have been added to metadata fields that you just hover over to view. We would like this same functionality in Analysis Mode so as we trying to view certain metadata fields and f...
    about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

    Fix Column sequence mismatch issue in Decision Runner generated spreadsheet report

    We have introduced multi-column in the scenario sheet to handle input JSON request of size > 32K characters. 32K is the cell size limitation.But the columns in Decision Runner generated report spreadsheet get jumbled up. The column sequence is ...
    11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Is a defect

    CPE Java API should provide option to add client ID in order to identify originator of symptoms discovered in CPE server logs/traces

    Running a FileNet Content Manager environment with multiple Business Unit applications and custom integration applications (Java API), it's not always obvious which CPE client application has originated a certain task. This might include for examp...
    over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    As a companion to the Undo feature, have a Redo feature as well

    There are times that you want to quickly Undo a series of changes to see how they impacted the diagram, but then want to put them back. Snapshots don't facilitate this unless you happened to put a snapshot at the point you want to back to, but it'...
    over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

    Simplify searching an individual Application Group

    Searching today follows one of three paths: Based on ODCriteria values Based on SQL Based on an ODNamedQuery The only provision in ODWek to allow restricting searches to a given Application Group is via ODFolder.setApplGroupForSearchWithSQL(). My ...
    about 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Not under consideration

    Execute parallel nodes in real parallel

    We're trying BAMOE 9.2; one of the use cases that we have is for microservices orchestration and saga patterns; to achieve that it's very important the performance. One of the cases that our clients are demanding us is to execute steps in parallel...
    over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Future consideration

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