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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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How different versions of bundled runtime pods managed via documentation by IBM BAW Team?

Refer to PMR TS012093883, in context of the need below, understand inbuilt packaged pods' versions for containerized BAW not available but I feel this is must for different architecture and integration requirements for various organization with to...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 5 Future consideration

Moving Text on Gateways, Events and Links

I would like the flexibility to move the external test for gateway, events or links to align with top, bottom, left or right of the item. Currently, the text appears below the item and cannot be moved.
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

add feature for enhancing the usage of excel commands

Task bot fails with "Name Conflict" error when opening an Excel spreadsheet. This problem is addressed in the following KB article: https://apeople.automationanywhere.com/s/article/Receiving-Name-Conflict-pop-up-when-opening-an-Excel-spreadsheet P...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration

Description popup for Participant

Just like popups all over BwL, it would be nice to have a popup with the description for Participant when viewing Process Diagram/Map/etc. This would be helpful when it's necessary to abbreviate Participant names (like System as a Participant).
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 5 Functionality already exists

Guides for decision center webhook notifications other than Slack

You have a guide for setting up decision center notifications using Slack and Node.js. This is not suitable for all clients though. Many companies use Teams and Outlook, and there is no mention of how to set up these. You provide the Slack folder ...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Guides for decision center webhook notifications other than Slack

You have a guide for setting up decision center notifications using Slack and Node.js. This is not suitable for all clients though. Many companies use Teams and Outlook, and there is no mention of how to set up these. You provide the Slack folder ...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Option to make Documentation tab as a default view

We prefer some of our blueprints to be defaulted to the Documentation tab view. It will help us to see the complete list of supporting document links for a specific blueprint right away. Our current setting is that when we open a blueprint, the sy...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Ability to merge change activities in the Business Console UI without having to create a 3rd activity.

Multiple activities authoring is supported in Decision Center. When 1st activity is completed, and 2nd open activity is trying to update table that was change earlier (1st activity) - source management correctly locks it. This is expected behavior...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Intuitive Error Handling with Retry Counter

Current Error handling and Recovery do not have building in counter to accommodate the retry mechanism. Can we build in some additional level of retry mechanism and finally
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Set a property on which the search result should be sorted in the IS-Connector for ICN

In IDM Desktop and ISTK there was the possibility to set a property on which the search result should be sorted. Unfortunately this is no longer possible in the IS-Connector for ICN. Our customer does not use ICN, but has his own frontend solution...
over 2 years ago in Content and Capture Services - other 4 Not under consideration