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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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IBM BAW - Providing a Process Portal search index command to re-index only active process instances and open tasks

providing a Process Portal search index command to re-index only active process instances and open tasks in IBM Business Automation Workflow
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Show display name of resources instead of only IDs in Audit Log

Scenario 1: Creating a role in the non-productive environment (BR2). Created role "TESTE_FUNCAO". Screenshot_1_-_Creat.png At the moment the role is created, we would like to see in the LOG the reference of the name used at the moment ...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Add support to run Python scripts

Some things are done easier in Python, so it would be great to have the possibility of running Python scripts and capturing the output (probably as strings).
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Support for writing expressions in "variable fields"

You always have to add extra activities that assigns new values to a variables when working with strings and numeric operations. It would be alot faster save som space if you could write expressions directly in the property fields of activities wh...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

ODM on Cloud: Enhance Decision Center Deploy REST API

ODMoC is limited by a 2-minute timeout on API requests. Whenever a response to a request is not sent within 2 minutes, the proxy sends a response with an HTTP 524 error code. Later, when the server finally sends the response, the proxy does not fo...
about 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Change path for temp folders that creates ABBYY engine during processing document/pages with action RecognizeToPDFOCR_A.

Currently, it is not possible for the user to set a custom temporary path for temp folders that creates ABBYY engine during processing document/pages with action RecognizeToPDFOCR_A. Default path is in the environment is "C:\Windows\Temp\ABBYY Fin...
7 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Under review

IBM RPA API enhancement to Bots-related API commands

We suggest the creation of an endpoint which retrieves the last log messages via API, the bot status, start date, end date and so on. This can enable users to have more control over the bots and create custom flows controlled via API calls.
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to open process execution on a new window

When checking a process execution in Web Client would be very helpful being able to select a process execution and open it details on a new window. This will help when searching among lots of executions.
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Activity Type Icon overlaps activity label

When adding an Activity Type Icon to an Activity Box it can overlap activity labels.
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release