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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

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Add functionality of showing running instance token on the workflow diagram to the web designer the same as it exists on the desktop designer

We wish to have in the web designer the ability to view the running instance token location visulay on the workflow diagram when an instance is instantiated and run on the Workflow Server. The same way the ability exisits in the deprecated desktop...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Ability to specify a default solution to load for the Cases ICN Desktop Feature or limit the solutions that can be access from an ICN Desktop

When you select the Cases Feature in a Desktop, Case Manager loads. Using the Role drop down in the top right corner, the user can not only change roles for the current Solution they loaded into, but they can change to any other solution they have...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Better login experience

The login screen on the client confuses many people with the tenant and password area being greyed out and requiring the user to click login once to get the tenants and a second time to actually login after providing tenant and password. Can we pl...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Allow Setting custom inactivity timeout duration

If a user is in Blueworks but does not click on anything, they are shown a warning at the 60 minute (1 hour) mark that their session will time out in 5 minutes.If the user remains inactive for another 5 minutes, then the session times out at 65 mi...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Delivered

Option to leave the comment bubble

Make the option available to leave the comment bubble visible even after has been read.
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Delivered

Add Execution Evaluator to Web PD

Execution Evaluator is currently available in the Desktop Process Designer but has been deprecated in Web Designer. With the release of BAW, Desktop Process Designer is going away with no replacement for the Execution Evaluator.
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Process Inspector: introduce sorting by execution time

This is related to case TS001709807. AVP customer VKB needs to change the sorting in Process Inspector. It is sorted by task ID, but they would need to sort by execution time, so that they can see the tasks in a chronological order.
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Styling of Web Process Designer

Add styling option to Web Process Designer. In specific, ability to change a font used to display a JavaScript code. By default it is Arial 12px and this font is not optimal to display code.
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Request for multiple format handling in UI component DateTimePicker

The BPM UI "Date Time Picker" component in BPM UI Toolkit, can as per today, validate input with only one input format, i.e. yyyy-MM-dd when entered by the user using the keyboard. (in addition to the ability to pick a date in the calendar that po...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

Linked Maps New Browser Option

In Details, Documentation, then Insert Link I can insert a link and tell BW to open it in a new window. Can BW do the same for linked maps? I understand that there is a cookie crumb at top of the window that allows the viewer to go back where they...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Delivered