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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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Activate case-insensitivity in TWSearch

TWSearch API is case sensitive. So for example the search result for "customer= ibm " will be completely different than for "customer= IBM " which is creating confusion sometimes while searching and It would be easy if there is a setting to Activa...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

dynamic groups of users in IAM of cp4ba

create a dynamic user group to automatically add users to the IAM as they are created in the AD
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Kirk Clarke

While the Participant of multiple activities can be updated but selecting and moving to a new swimlane, updating other details can only done per individual activity. This is time consuming, repetitive and therefore to the best use of time or user ...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Don't allow Process Diagrams to have the same name within the same space

I am requesting that Blueworks Live make a change so that it does not allow users to create spaces with the same name. When a user tries to create a space with a name that already exists a message should pop up saying that a space with that name a...
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Add date time range filter to the process instances search

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

Enhancement of the REST-API to filter rules based on metadata

We use the REST interface to display rules and tables from the Decision Center in the customer's standard applications. Only a certain part of the rules is of interest, never all of them. Therefore, only those rules that are relevant should be ret...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Functionality already exists

Account Management - User Notifications and Stale Notifications

User Notifications - Create automated alerts about users not logging into the system for a certain period of time Stale Notifications - Create automated alerts about Blueprints that have not been updated in a set amount of time Business case - As ...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Activity Type Icon overlaps activity label

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

Message ARS0081I should include AG fields that are set to be 'Logged'

Customers want to see field information in messages that show document information when documents are retrieved or printed
7 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 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
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration