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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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Attach to runtime - Validate if the connection is from localhost or external

The IBM RPA should check if the connection between the client and the client running the schedule is local (127.0.0.1) or is being connected by an external address. If the connection is a localhost (127.0.0.1) , the schedule needs to work fine. ...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Is a defect

Allow to inform arguments when creating schedule

It is useful to inform arguments when creating a schedule because we can make different schedules dynamically using only one code and not needing to create multiple scripts to do so.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

MS SQL Server with jdbc > 10.2

It appears that MS SQL jdbc drivers > 10.2 have a change in behaviour related to ssl. The command BPMConfig -validate -db c:\IBM\bawinst\PC\Advanced-PC-ThreeClusters-SQLServer.properties fails with the following error CWMCB0313E: An error occur...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Ter a opção de escolher a resolução e escala nas máquinas quando o robô for executar.

Ter a opção de escolher a resolução e escala nas máquinas quando o robô for executar.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Allow for null fields in sortable columns for work lists rather than showing an error.

Needed by the business to re-sort each column. Not all fields have a value.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Please remove swim lane from service flow

For some reason there is a swim lane in service flow. There is no way to add another swim lane or to remove existing one. However, that unnecessary swim lane causes the limitation on activity placement. Sometimes I need to expand swim lane in orde...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Add JS initialization for selection list business Object

Let's say that there is a selection simple type business object named SelectionSimpleTypeObject and that there are some values and display text pairs entered:1 One2 Two Let's say that there is a Service Flow, Client Side Human Service, Heritage Hu...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

When showing connections that run over each other or meet at corners, it would be easier to follow the path of the connection if the lines at the corners were rounded.

To improve the comprehensibility of the scheme.
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Excel command for deleting a row needed

Trying to loading an excel in a data table, deleting a row from the data table, and expecting the row to be deleted on excel. The delete rows command works in memory, literally deleting a row in the variable, not on the excel file. There is no exc...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Send an email with outlook request confirmation email option

Send an email with request confirmation option would be good because a return receipt in special cases are necessary due to audit purpose.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration