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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 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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Enable the Swimlanes on both sides of the process map for better scrolling

When the process map is too large and needs scrolling from left to right, it could be very useful to have the swimlanes on both sides so we know who the action lies with in the process.
almost 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

A large Datacap customer want s to add database connection pooling to the product It appears we may be able to use .NET's connection pooling ability by merely adding the following to the DB connection string: ;Pooling=true;Min Pool Size=<x>;Max Pool Size=<xxx>; " We need DEV/ENG to test this and provide support if the test achieves the desired results.

In order for an enterprise application to scale, connection pooling is needed.
over 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Group Chat

If possible please try to include group chat feature in Blueworks live as it will make collaboration more effective.
almost 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Rename the 'Subject' column of in-baskets to 'Activity'

The Subject column name has always rather confusing. For legacy cases it should have been named Task and with BAW it should be Activity. (The value of Activity is obviously the process instance name, but since 'activity' is really the generic term...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Add task due date as a selectable system property in in-baskets

Task due dates are a major feature in BPM, but when building case solutions with processes implementing case activities there is no way to view, sort or filter on task due date in Navigator in-baskets. There is only a cryptical icon in the left-mo...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Seamless integration with IBM Process Mining

Integrate IBM Process Mining and IBM RPA. Feed Process Mining with logs from RPA bots, so Process Mining can analyze bot processes, make recommendations for process improvements and find gaps. Create an RPA bot from the Task Mining output of Proce...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide custom order of Buttons in IBM RPA Launcher application

For Business users its better to provide the order of BUTTONS in Launcher for easy running of bots one by one. Sometimes IBM RPA Launcher cannot keep the order of the buttons when created.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Added workplace team "custom view" function

In workplace, you can query processes in various states through "customized view", but this function is not available in "team". Customers need to view the completed process through the "team".
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide BWL API capability to support the export of Metadata that would be used to link BWL Process Diagrams to associated BWL Process Applications

Description: Provide BWL API capability to support the export of Metadata that would be used to link BWL Process Diagrams to associated BWL Process Applications. This Metadata would be included as part of an export that can be fed into another sys...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Hashtag Feature in BlueworksLive

Team,We want to implement the hashtag feature in BlueworksLive. Currently we are utilizing the hashtag feature to enable process search. We want to expand the capability to enable us to click on the hash tag to highlight the related processes and ...
almost 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 5 Future consideration