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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

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Allow for additional colors to be named even though the color legend has preferred colors

When preferred colors are set in the color legend you're not able to also use additional colors, it's one or the other. So when colors have been set in the customization you are only able to see those color labels. I'd like to be able to set speci...
9 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

"Go To Designer" button in eclipse which enable Authors to go to last worked item is missing in WEB PD

Authors can not to go to their last opened/worked item (toolkit/PA service)like eclipse. "Go To Designer" button in eclipse which enable Authors to go to last worked item is missing in WEB PD. This impact efficiency of Authors as they have to spen...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM BAW ENV Variable Cache Size.

CBR (Dutch Driving Agency) are experiencing severe performance problems. They've noticed that a high proportion of the BPEDB Database activity is related to accessing ENV variables. Apparently, the tables LSW_ENV_VAR, LSW_ENV_VAR_SET and LSW_ENV_V...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

WEB PD does not maintain last open session/page like eclipse PD and default always to process app tab

WEB PD does not maintain last page session like eclipse PD and default always to process app tab. For example : When you click on "back to workflow center" it always go to process app tab even you were in toolkits tabs last time or opened a toolki...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

artificial intelligence robots powered by quantum battery for snow removal etc

AI robots working for snow removal in countries like Canada, Russia, Europe-nations Provide etc
9 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Business Console Test Report window to filter out all passed test cases and only show those cases that failed.

Currently, the Business Console Test Report window has the ability to filter on entered search criteria. We would like to have either a keyword to enter (like "Failed") or some way to click on something that filters out all the successful tests an...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1

Allow shops to control timeout process or heartbeat for ARSODF and CMOD Cloud

Currently the ARSODFC task will come down if CMOD Cloud or Network issues cause it to disconnect. We would like to set the amount of time before the disconnect occurs. Currently there are no messages other than an RC02 to indicate a "timeout" or m...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Enhance error messages for debugging

Enhance error messages to contain actual rule that was fired that caused error (Decision table name and row/column if possible). Debugging errors that occur during rule execution is difficult and time consuming. Messages returned from execution an...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Organization hierarchy for Managers Team in BPM

For current Team Filter Service and Team Retrieve Service, we cannot filter team members for managers team. For example, I want the staff's line manager to be in managers team, the staff is defined at runtime, so the managers team member decided b...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Bulk operation(s) for GDPR deletion of users

Currently the GDPR deletion of users can only be accomplished one-user-at-a-time: "Deleting personal data of BPM users" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSFPJS_8.6.0/com.ibm.wbpm.main.doc/topics/gdpr_delete_personal_data.html We would like the abilit...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration