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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

All ideas

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More control over Annotation Security

Clients using WorkplaceXT had greater control over how annotations are configured in the viewer.
almost 5 years ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 1 Not under consideration

Test services

It would be nice to be able to mark Client Side Human Service as a test service if needed. This would mean 2 things: 1. that the test service can be binded as a test service to some artifact like other services, CV, BO, etc. 2. (less important) th...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Object Cloning not working

issues with Object cloning was with LiveLink ‘Web Reports' for 841 Ph2 in Prod
almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration

Select query with multiple parameter in loop

When we are using excel as database and using select query with multiple parameter in loop, the result for first select query will retrieves the correct records.It will return you number of filter records if present. -For 2nd or 3 rd time when you...
almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration

Subtask failure not indicated

Tracking Sub task failure from Parent task not possible.
almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration

Data import to DB

Want to be able to import CSV data file into a DB (e.g. MS SQL) to refresh tables directly via AA. Had to develop stored procedure to do this.
almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration

Control is passed to Excel and if there's any error bot will

VBA macro -- Control is passed to Excel and if there's any error bot will hang.
almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration

Use UPN for authentication for ICC search in OWA

No description provided
almost 5 years ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Not under consideration

Reduce multiple instances (manual tasks created using ICM) to single process

1. We have a case type in which we have different activities about 10.2. These 10 activities are created manually and are using external BPM processes.3. These activities use same Process App and same business process4. In the Business process we ...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

lower() DB function renders idex on LSW_BPD_INSTANCE ineffective

Description of the issue; we started seeing “SQLCODE=-905, SQLSTATE=57014”. At that time, process instance creation was successful but all fetch operation failed. See ticket number - TS002094734; this ticket number failed the PMR validation above....
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration