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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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Include Release creation date in Decision Center (DC) APIs - Specifically the one that pull all the releases for a decision service in DC

IBM DC provides APIs to extract all the releases for a decision service that includes most of the details except release creation date. This will help the customers who are adopting IBM ODM as enterprise rules engine & have audit/accountabilit...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Delivered

Allow Case workitem email notifications to open the item directly so the user can review and take action

Current email notification links direct the user to the in-basket instead of the worktime they need to process.
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Delivered

Decision Engine BOM2XOM ARL editor needs auto-completion

The Bom2XOM mapping field does not auto-complete entries when using the Decision Engine instead of the classic rules engine.The ARL based field don't respond to CTRL + SPACE so you have to manually type in all the code
almost 8 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 4 Delivered

OOTB "Open document in a new window" button for File Viewer component

The "File Viewer" component of the Content Management Toolkit does not provide the the out-of-the-box button/option to open the current document in a new window, and this functionality is crucial for the users. The old/deprecated component "Respon...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

Command "Watch and Set Credentials in Browser" not working when window security name is changed

The Watch and Set Credentials in the Browser command do not work in some versions of Microsft Edge. The reason why is because Microsoft recently changed the window security name from "Window Security" to "Sign in to access this site". With this ch...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Support case instances migration

Currently BPM does not support the migration of case instances. I would like to have the possibility to migrate the case instances. This is a very important feature.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Improve user experience when creating advanced filters with a filter bar approach and drag-drop options

With the tool's focus on process analysis, many of its end users do not have advanced skills in multiple development languages. This point, combined with the scenario in which some need to use advanced filters and custom metrics, generates the nee...
9 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Delivered

RPA Support for Edge

We need to support Edge for IBM RPA
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Delivered

Execution evaluator for Web Designer

in Process Designer we got Execution Evaluation to check any data expression it is very useful for quick debug and production support.Could you please reintroduce this feature into Web Designer?
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Systematic enforcement that the Approver cannot also be the Author of a change activity.

Allow the administrator to choose if the enforcement of this new constraint: The Approver of a change activity cannot also be the author of the same change activity. Enforcement of this constraint will ensure separation of duty is followed.
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Delivered