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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).


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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:

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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,

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  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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KPI information should auto-populate as a sum to higher levels such as from (L4 to L3, L2 and L1) where the L4 process map is linked to.

We need a functionality where if the KPI's are filled for the activities(such as Cycle Time) under a sub-process should be calculated as a total of all the activities and auto-populate as the KPI information for the sub-process including all the a...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

Custom length/range of horizontal axis of line chart widget in analytic tab

When using the line chart widget in the analytic tab, there are always blank spaces at the end of the chart. The useful part (lines) only occupies the one-third of the images. Can we set the length/range of the horizontal axis of the line chart to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 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:
9 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

IBM Task Mining - Audit page - IBM Process Mining to include more Start/End date filter options.

Currently, users need to filter the start/end date for the task recording. In many scenarios, users must track the day they publish a Task from TM to PM. It would be interesting to add, on this page, the possibility of the Start and End date appli...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

IBM Task Mining - Task Classification wildcards improvement

Currently, the task classification process could be more straightforward. We suggest adding to the wildcards options of real business cases to streamline the process of Task Classification, like:1- Giving the user an easy option (shortcut) to grou...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release

Create Ability to control permissions related to BWL Glossary

Requesting a feature that allows BWL Admins to dictate which account users can create new Glossary values. Currently Contributors/Editors can type in items, and if there are typos or extra spaces, it will create two separate terms. We are requesti...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Enable the local time zone settings for timestamp "Recent activities" & "Last login"

For now, the timestamp of the "last login" is following the server's timezone setting and it for Recent activities is fixed as UTC. It is natural for Japanese(and other region's) clients to want to use their own timezone, is it possible to make Re...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Allow only single session logon

Banking customer has security requirement that allow only single logon to the web based system. The application must not accept / allow concurrent login more than 1 session to reduce security beaches. Currently BAW traditional and container allow ...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

add feature for enhancing the usage of excel commands

Task bot fails with "Name Conflict" error when opening an Excel spreadsheet. This problem is addressed in the following KB article: https://apeople.automationanywhere.com/s/article/Receiving-Name-Conflict-pop-up-when-opening-an-Excel-spreadsheet P...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration

Link More than one Process on Events

Add the ability to link more than one process on the Send/Receive Message events, just how you can link to more than one process from an activity.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration