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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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REST interface for IBM Process Federation Server resources - Process List Resource - GET Method

Currently the PFS exposes a federated task list of all task instances through REST. GET /rest/bpm/federated/v1/tasksWe need the following enhancement to the REST interface to give us similar functions as the existing federated task list.1. The abi...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Finding Active Token Instances For The Given BPM Name or BPD ID with ACTIVITY ID/ACTIVITY NAME

WELLS working on one new requirement where it needs to find all active tokens in given BPD(All instances for the BPD). Currently the solution identified with existing exposed REST API, execution context can be retrieved either in JSON/XML format a...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to configure the port using

The ports used the consul.exe of Bot Insight Discovery Services is not configurable. There should be provisions to configure and override the default port configurations
about 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 0 Future consideration

WebService Servers move to other domain, how to simply update external WebService service in BPM end to reflect the change

When using an external WebService service with WSDL, if there is any change in the content of the WSDL, we can always update the external service by re-runing the external service wizard. But recently our WebService Server changed domain and ip ad...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add resource files to process variables

We would like to use localized resource files in our process models. Alternativley it would be useful to have a app-wide api for this. Like this: tw.system.getResourceByName("name", ("language"))
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Increase storage space

Our users have been using a lot of storage space for their process maps to the point where we ran out of storage space. About 99% have been images pasted directly into the Documentation tab and 1% have been documents. No videos are uploaded. My un...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

How to find out no reference (not used anywhere) artefacts

We need to know how to find out the artefacts which is not used anywhere in the process app. basically we want to know no 'Referenced By' services to cleanup.
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM BAW Webservices (Inbound webservices on BPD Layer) are not filtering SQL error when URL is manipulated

When we try to access an inbound web service ( exposed in BPD Layer) with a malformed URL , it prints SQL error to the calling client giving access to database details . There does not seem to be any way to control the SQL output (Potential for SQ...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Application does not notify last login date and time

When a user logs into the application, the application does not display the last login time and date to the user. The last login time and date helps a user to verify that his account has not been accessed by someone else in an unauthorized way. Th...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enable LDAP Authentication Behind a Load Balancer

IBM RPA with Automation Anywhere currently does not support configuring LDAP authentication where the LDAP request is sent through a Network Load Balancer. I would like an enhancement which would enable me to configure the Control Room to make LDA...
about 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 0 Future consideration