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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 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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Governance: Only one single notification is send for trigger via Governance app, incase of no action by users. There is no option to send reminder notification or escalation.

Multiple reminders and escalation to be triggered incase of no action being taken for open process app tasks.
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Governance: Process App reporting option to be created & user with edit rights to space should have visibility to task and reports for assigned space.

Governance: Process App reporting option to be created & user with edit rights to space should have visibility to task and reports for assigned space.
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Governance: Launching of customized app into respective spaces only and not into subspace.

Currently, customized apps are launched into all the sub workspaces within a space. This to be curtailed to that specific space only and option to be provided to Admin & user with workspace edit rights if the app has to be implemented for a pa...
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Governance: Default option to be 'None' for Governance under Customization used by Admin.

Currently, the governance feature is default launched for all workspaces within BWL. Instead default option should be none and have a selective selection of workspace for Governance launch by Admin on users with workspace edit rights.
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Add Spring Boot 3 as a supported runtime for business services

We would like to use spring boot 3 as the runtime for the process and decision services.
2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 2 Planned for future release

Exception Handling for the Scripts

My idea is to have something close to what we have in Blueprism today, a block. A block is a rectangular region that groups together all the stages that fall completely within it. A block can contain its own Recover Stage, which will handle except...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Future consideration

Revert input/output variable mapping to classic view to remove extra steps

Users are facing challenges with BAW 23.0.1's new variable mapping process, finding it cumbersome due to extra clicks and complexity, especially in complex projects. The classic mapping offered quicker, more straightforward access to variable usag...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Line breaks in activity text

For instances like quoting an email address, it would be beneficial to enable Alt+Enter to force a line break in the Activity text. Sometimes spaces will work to present this (Example 2), but I have had instances where Blueworks ignores me after 2...
19 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Online Backup and Restore

Availability of online backup and restore features and capabilities in Cloud Pak for Business Automation

IBM Content Collector for FileSystems available as Cloud Pak (Container Platform)

We recently received feedback from IBM Netherlands regarding the future of IBM Content Collector on Windows. The product is currently in 'maintenance mode', which means that no further development is taking place. Our organization makes extensive ...
about 1 year ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Not under consideration