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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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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...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Deleting tracks from Process Center

I am not able to delete track from an process application, I can only archive it. There are multiple tracks in an process app which are not used since long, need to clear those to improve performance. I have raised a PMR mentioned above, it seems ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Delivered

Add "Reassign back to team" back to Process Portal similar to Heritage Process Portal

When migrating from BPM 8.5.6 to BPM 8.6 and using the new Process Portal our users noticed that the function “Reassign back to team” is not available from the menu when a user has an open tasks.Users need to go to View instance and then to reassi...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Implement line wrapping in portal web interface

In Process Portal web interface, there is not line wrapping implemented. Customer needs to enlarge the columen in order to see all the text.This line wrapping functionality should be implemented in one of the next releases.
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Keep Comment Notifications on Process Maps Until Deleted

Keep the notification bubble with the number of comments on an activity within the process map until the comments are deleted. Currently that number and notification go away after viewing the comment. This causes comments to be left in the process...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Delivered

Date Time Picker with Calendar Icon

Presently there is no visual difference between Date Time Picker control and Text control unless the user clicks on Date Time Picker to open the Calendar. It would be nicer to have a calendar icon as an indicator for the Date Time Picker.It can al...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Auto-sizing and preferences for portal column widths

Table view in process portal (work or a saved search) uses a very conservative width-distribution, leaving some columns truncuted while others have lots of wasted space. Using IBM BPM Express 8.5.7.2017.06. Sub-requests of extension, in order of i...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Add rich text activity description to client-side human service

The heritage coach had the ability to access the rich text activity description via the processActivityRichDescription property of the TWTask object. However, the new client-side human service does not have the equivalent functionality, it only ha...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Enhance Bulk API for BPM REST To Include Failure Responses

We are using BPM Advanced 8.5.7 currently using a 3-step process to use REST query/claim/finish call to update a task in received status for a given process instance. I would like IBM to reconsider it's approach to how the bulk API support is hand...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 6 Delivered

Edit Access Levels of Property Values

Be able to move property values up and down within the property.
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Delivered