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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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Additional BWL Admin functions

The Admin panel for BWL needs additional capabilities to properly manage users.-There should be a button to send a notification to all users (or a defined subgroup)-There should be a way to define a message for users to see when they log in within...
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Simplified REST calling from service flows

To be able to call a backend from a process application, you either need to define the backend as a server in your process application, or create java classes that you pipe your calls through. It would be great if the Javascript-serverside-api had...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Not able to stop tracking of multiple completed workflows using PE tracker from ICN.

Client is currently able to stop tracking of single completed workflow successfully from ICN . But when the client is selecting more completed workflows and the stop tracking button get greyed out as shown in the below figure:
8 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Separate Participants from Business Owners & Experts in Glossary

In the Glossary, Participants are grouped together with Business Owners & Experts. However, the nature of these are very different. A "participant" (swim lane) should rarely be the name of an individual (Jane Doe), but should be their role in ...
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Enhance user roles of Decision Center so that separate different business departments with settings

Please add department user management roles of Decision Center which only can give authorization for users within only own department.The rules of each department is confidential information for them and they would not like to show it to users of ...
almost 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Streamline, simplify and improve the process of installing debug builds

When we need to install a debug build, we first need to uninstall the current version, install the debug build, and then change the log levels to the desired state. Once the debug process is done, we need to get back to the old version, but more o...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Allow post logout redirect in CP4BA 21.0.3 as it was the case with UMS and CP4BA 20.0.3

With CP4BA 21.0.3 and CS 3.21, it is no longer possible to perform a logout on the external IDP side as it was the case with UMS and CP4BA 20.0.3 via a post-logout redirect . A solution has been proposed to us (see file TS010116671) but requires t...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Not under consideration

Cache an Object in Business rules Decison Operation execution

Hi Team, I have an idea of caching huge request object (if the object is going to be same for all the request processed for 1-2 days or one week or defined time). This will help for batch processing. We have a requirement that needs to conclude so...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Support for Datacap Exporting to SharePoint Online

Many organisations now have active subscriptions to MS Office 365. A large number of these subscriptions include the use of SharePoint Online (SPO). Several Datacap customers also subscribe to Office 365 and SharePoint Online and some would like t...
about 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Add a Dictionary type to Glossary to define an Acronym/Definition term and its meaning - display both in artifacts

Adding a new Acronym/Definition type in the Glossary would allow predefined entries that could be accessed from within the process model. When entering the term in the Details panel, the selection of matching terms would appear in the picklist. On...
9 months ago in Blueworks Live 3 Functionality already exists