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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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Denote Archived Model on Intermediate Events

BWL only allows 1 send/receive connection on intermediate events (aka send/receive messages, boundary, sequence flow, and start / end events) however when a model is archived BWL will reflect more than one. (See attachments)Requesting archived ind...
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Add OAuth functionality to Operational Decision Manager 8.10.x running on Tomcat web server

ODM 8.10.3 supports OAuth, but only when running on WebSphere® Application Server Liberty. We are running ODM on Tomcat 8.5. The need using OAuth on all web service calls is a new mandate by FannieMae. FannieMae also requires the use of Tomcat app...
about 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Admin Feature - Quicker Access Administration

Admin must go through many screens to add users to various spaces or groups. Often users want mirrored access to their co-workers as well. This requires a call back to the user and their coworker or for Admin to comb the db to determine where thei...
almost 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Provide option to set custom icons for controls

HI Team, Please enable option to set custom icons for controls like button ,well etc.Sometimes we need to show icons related client.For example displaying client's bank logo as background image using well control. As of this is not supported. Exam...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enable unique ID search in the main search field

The overall search should fetch the details from the entire BWL content. For e.g. If I search "Lending" in the overall search (at the top right corner- below Admin) I should get the result from all the tabs like which space has Lending, which Proc...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

BAW assign a database user with an environment-specific suffix to a schema

For Business Automation Workflow need the ability to assign a database user with an environment-specific suffix to a schema with consistent naming on all environments
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Massive changes in Blueprints

Make massive changes with an Excel correction file, such as code name and process name, impacted through the process ID, without affecting previously executed links, when applicable.
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Process App & Toolkit Access Visibility

We would like to have an API we can use to have a holistic view of who has access to an artifact (process app or toolkit) Currently we do it by having to view each artifact individually. The ask is if we can do a rest call and get a response with ...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Automation Anywhere 11.1.7

Control Room - Atualizar senha host do Ldap quando for alterado.R: Quando cadastramos um usuário para ser BUILD do control room pelo LDAP, o usuário em teoria não deveria ter a senha expirada. Porém, caso ocorrer de expirar a senha ou ser alterada...
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 2 Future consideration

Unattended installation with the user "SYSTEM"

For customer BRZ (0272108 ), Case TS003050188 As the customer is using SCCM installing the software and their installation process uses the user "SYSTEM" they want that the installation of RPA runner is possible with this user.At the moment only t...
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 0 Future consideration