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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 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
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...

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To support installing multiple TOS with operator for baw container version

For case management, the case solution max property number is limited by database table max support column number, e.g. Oracle table max column is 1000. In our current situation, a case solution usually has hundreds properties, then one TOS can on...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 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

Update of Rules Designer to work in latest versions of Eclipse IDE

IBM Support Case Reference: TS003381904 The latest available version of the ODM Rules designer (8.10.3) does not work with the current versions of the Eclipse IDE (4.14 or 4.15). This is preventing our developers from updating their IDE environmen...
almost 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 3 Delivered

Expose RESTful services from process app

Similar to the way we can define/expose Web Services in Process Designer, we'd like to be able to define RESTful services that can be exposed, including a swagger to be downloaded (analogously to the WSDL that is generated automatically when defin...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Search option in Single select control

We require a search option in the SPARK UI single select control. The legacy controls based on the Dojo toolkit had the option of searching the dropdown values by typing .After migration our business users are facing issues and have to manually sc...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 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

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

Command "Watch and Set Credentials in Browser" not working when window security name is changed

The Watch and Set Credentials in the Browser command do not work in some versions of Microsft Edge. The reason why is because Microsoft recently changed the window security name from "Window Security" to "Sign in to access this site". With this ch...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

External integration with Edit Services

A number of users view documents from an external application using the Content Navigator linking API. These same users edit a subset of the documents using the Content Navigator Edit Service. This solution currently requires the users to leave th...
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 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...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered