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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

All ideas

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Performance Improvement: add index on CorrelationKeyInfo.processInstanceId in your schema

This is based on this case: TS016078647 In our domain, we run a couple of IBM BAM instances on PostreSQL. Our DB experts figured, that on the IBM BAM schema, an index would be helpful to increase performance. The symptom was, that in our case, the...
6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Under review

Add date time range filter to the process instances search

All IBM RPA users who has process created to their projects
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Add Release Locks to ODM Decision Center REST API

Currently to "release locks" in the ODM business console a user must have Administrator privileges. If they are an Admin, then they can do anything. This is a violation of separation of duties. If the Release Lock action were available via the RES...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Not under consideration

Better Variable Scope

As in other programming languages, variable scope would be very useful when calling subroutines. Subroutines should have in and out locally scoped variables that are set in the same way variables are set when calling executeScript
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

CHDBPrune tool to support Case State property

Currently, CHDBPrune tool only take string value. An OOTB Case State provided by Case Manager is using integer instead of string. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/case-manager/5.3.3?topic=comibmcasemgmtapiconstants-casestate It would be great if CHDBPr...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Create query reporting tool

We are wanting to use the IBM Studio reporting tool, however, when trying to create my queries, I only found one way, which is by dragging the preloaded tables and fields using a 'Query Generator'. That way it's unfeasible, I need to assemble my o...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Rename of variables in web pd

Allow the renaming of variables over the whole process app in the web pd. Including scripts.
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Delete Snapshots and Orphan Toolkits

Too many steps necessary to do housekeeping and managing the complex BPM applications that Commerzbank is deploying e.g. to delete a snapshot you first have to fire a REST call to get all snapshot names from the application... then you have to che...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Conversion tool for Heritage Human Services in BPM

Many long-time customers have large numbers of heritage artifacts, such as Heritage Human Services. There is no tool available to convert Heritage Human Services to a CSHS with the SPARK toolkit; you would have to recreate the entire UI by hand. A...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

IBM BPM should support int64 format

In order to integrate with modern services (Blockchain/Hyperledger and a number of Watson services) using e.g. REST Outbound, IBM BPM should be able to support the int64 format for integer. This is an official Swagger format according to the Swagg...
almost 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Planned for future release