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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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Ability to extend in-active sessions for Blueworks Live

System: Blueworks LiveActor: User accessing the Blueworks Live with in corporate domain network Blueworks Live is a commonly used product that provides support to L5-L7 process mangement & governance. As the process changes are frequest and ha...
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Delivered

FTS Search and normal search should help each other and not have their own world

Today if you search with FTS only, then it will search only via the Full Text Search engine. If you search via the search criteria (without using the FTS search), then the search will search through the metadata of CMOD Now, the problem is, when y...
almost 4 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Delivered

Optimization of display of large (e.g.400 activities) process models

For really large processes, ability to zoom out so that the complete process graph can be displayed, including a small overview window identifying the actually displayed portion of the process with a moving and resizing frame an a small view of th...
over 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Delivered

Provide independent settings for RES and DC databases in the Helm Chart

When deploying ODM Helm Chart to certified Kubernetes, if you want to deploy in the same Helm release the components for Decision Server Runtime and Decision Center you can only specify settings for one database. As a result, the schemas correspon...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Delivered

SAP - Implement Grid View Toolbar mapping and highlighting on recorder

The Grid view toolbar buttons can't be mapped by the recorder. Users have to use SAP embedded recorder to discover the button ids and use them according to this documentation. We should implement this mapping to make it easier for the customer to ...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Upgrades of running workflow for BPM process based activities

The current way of working of the legacy BPM is that it takes a snapshot at the moment you “save” the coach and the solution; this snapshot includes properties, choice list and other artefact of the solution. At the run time, there’s many checks/c...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

View Side by Side Process Models for Two Processes or Two Differently Filtered Processes

There is a need to view two processes side by side to easily compare and contrast. In the Compare tab, two processes are shown, but overlaid in a single process model making it difficult to see the differences. The Dashboards only allow one proces...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Delivered

Better debugging for BAW

Debugging has several shortcomings that need to be fixed. Otherwise, it is all but impossible to properly maintain your solution! 1) There is no debug for Client-Side Human Services, like there used to be for the older style Coaches.2) Service Deb...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Enable generation of swagger for any given bot in IBM RPA Studio

To enable easy integration between BAW and IBM RPA, BAW calls bots via REST apis. To ease this process, BAW needs swagger definitions of the bot to call. This swagger definition should be generated in studio based on the bot's input and output par...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Scripts to create SIB messaging tables should be delivered to create UTS tablespaces and not Segmented.

There are some DB2 for z/OS tablespaces created as part of BPM installation/customization that are used to store data from tables that belong to the SIB messaging engine. The script that is delivered to create those tablespaces should include opti...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered