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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 API Constraint

Only GET Methods can be developed with Exposed Rest APIs (APIs opened from BPM to external systems). HTTP methods such as PUT, POST,DELETE should also be added here.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Restricting access to Process Instance data for Admin User

Dear Team, There is a requirement in our organization to restrict access of Process Instance data to only users involved in the process. From Process Inspector, an admin (tw_admin) user can view/edit the data of the any process instance by search...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to change the default document sorting order in Case Information widget

Allowing admin/Case Developer to chose the metadata and order to sort document in the Case Information Widget. Today documents are sorted by the first column. It could be useful to case worker to improve their document treatment.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

Some improvements and questions for canvas in BAMOE 9.0.0

We're doing some tests with canvas product for BAMOE 9.0.0 (https://quay.io/repository/bamoe/canvas) and we have two important questions and concerns: 1. Can we connect with bitbucket vía ssh? As far as I read the communication with bitbucket is b...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 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

User unsuccessful login audit

Due to security requirements, we should be able to audit both successful and unsuccessful login attempts to the platform using CPD. Currently, only successful events are being logged.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

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...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

ODM 8.12.0.1 - Detailed System Requirements must indicate that it supports Liberty 23.0.0.3 and future fix packs as it does in 8.12.0.0

IBM Operational Decision Manager 8.12.0.1 - Detailed System Requirements must indicate that it supports Liberty v23.0.0.3 and future fix packs as it does in 8.12.0.0. https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity-reports/report/html/s...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Is a defect

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...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration

RES DW page needs to limit the max number of results returned

RES DW page needs to limit the number of results returned to the UI no matter what is queried by the UI. This is needed because currently the RES Console UI Pod crashes and our end users would not always be super technical or know they might be ru...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Is a defect