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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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 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...
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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In Process Admin console, I (tw_authors) want to have the ability to edit runtime properties (env vars) of projects deployed by tw_admins offline if they are created by me as owner or collaborator.

tw_admins (BAW Admin) can centrally deploy projects to runtime environment offline for all teams today. tw_authors, however, don't even have ability to see their own projects deployed by tw_admins in Process Admin console. They should at least hav...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Move Process from Within

Currently you can only move a blueprint between workspaces using the dropdown menu next to the process name while in the workspace listing. Need to be able to move the blueprint while inside the model without having to exit the model first. This h...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Text Annotation Using Rich Text Formatting

The addition of Text Annotation is greatly appreciated and allowing rich text formatting would make it much more useful. (You give a mouse a cookie...)
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Show custom properties and EDS support for Recycle bin feature of IBM COntent Navigator

THere is a recyclebin plugin for IBM COntent Navigator. However, the plugin only shows the DOcument title and other system properties along with Class Name. However, these detaiils are not sufficent to identify the document as the document is iden...
over 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Allow use of Windows Auth for managing On-Prem database.

Right now only SQL auth is supported for managing and installing on prem database. Due to security concerns, using SQL auth is not always supported within enterprises.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Show list of jobs in web portal when you enter page and sort in descending date order

When opening https://eu1app.wdgautomation.com/#/en-US/scripts/scripts/jobs, the list of jobs are not in any particular order. Expected behaviour would be to see them in descending date/time order (by either Start or End). To view the latest jobs ...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide full MSAA support for windows controls, or not at all

IBM RPA only provides partial MSAA support for windows control operations. MSAA addressing for windows controls & UI elements is used by some competing products.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

IBM Process Mining wildcards - more flexibility for Task Classification

Currently, IBM Process Mining only allows some specific combination of characters and digits to define wildcards. We suggest a more flexible management of the strings, such as: possibilities to define ranges (e.g. 0 to 34 characters, digits), poss...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Ability to convert a Subprocess in to normal activities (part of the main diagram)

We have raised a request to Create sub processes by multi-selecting items shown in the process diagram, also vice versa , which is , convert a sub process in to normal activities ( which will become the part of the main diagram).
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

To have activity numbered in the Analyse and Playback mode

Currently we have the option to “Show Activity Numbering” in the process map which is not available in Analyse and Playback mode. The requirement is to freeze the activity number that is enabled in the process map for other functionality including...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration