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 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...
Share feedback 7
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
Share feedback 0

All ideas

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How different versions of bundled runtime pods managed via documentation by IBM BAW Team?

Refer to PMR TS012093883, in context of the need below, understand inbuilt packaged pods' versions for containerized BAW not available but I feel this is must for different architecture and integration requirements for various organization with to...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 5 Future consideration

commit parameters for arsdoc commands

add parameters similar to ARS_DB_DOC_LOAD_COMMIT_CNT=3000 ARS_DB_DOC_UNLOAD_COMMIT_CNT=3000 that is invoked when arsdoc remove implied holds or arsdoc delete commands are issued? We have a daily process that releases many holds and may delete many...
7 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Global session timeout across all CP4BA components

Session timeout has to be configured in each CP4BA components but this must be done individually with the risk of having inconsistent session durations. It should be possible to configure a global session duration at the operator level to ensure t...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration

Moving Text on Gateways, Events and Links

I would like the flexibility to move the external test for gateway, events or links to align with top, bottom, left or right of the item. Currently, the text appears below the item and cannot be moved.
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Automatically expand the visible script window when clicking into it (events, pre/post, etc.)

Currently a developer has 2 ways to see code not visible in a code window 1. Scroll inside the small 3 lines window (events) or the 10 line windows for pre/post script windows 2. click the up arrow which expands the window to 18 lines. Problems wi...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Improve tenant integration

We would like to work with a 3-tier system as follows: 1. tenant = bank 2. Organisation = business domain 3. process = type of process by naming convention The handling of tenants could be improved to level such as organisations
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Future consideration

Remove inconsistency for activity work time resolution

When managing "activity working time", the smallest number you can store is 1 minute. When defining "working time" in BPA it offers to work in seconds. In order for both to work together appropriately, "activity working time" should also allow for...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Planned for future release

Option to make Documentation tab as a default view

We prefer some of our blueprints to be defaulted to the Documentation tab view. It will help us to see the complete list of supporting document links for a specific blueprint right away. Our current setting is that when we open a blueprint, the sy...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Description popup for Participant

Just like popups all over BwL, it would be nice to have a popup with the description for Participant when viewing Process Diagram/Map/etc. This would be helpful when it's necessary to abbreviate Participant names (like System as a Participant).
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 5 Functionality already exists

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