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...
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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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Continuously update execution logs in the Control Center

It would be great if the logs were sent from time to time to the Web Client, being updated frequently, instead of only at the end of the execution. Not as much as to cause performance issues, but enough to know that the robot isn't stuck. Currentl...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Functionality already exists

Need additional rule details in web hooks

If the below details are not avaiable in the RuleCreated/RuleUpdated events, kindly add them. Also provide an option to do customization to add additional details in the event data. Default Rule Properties Custom Rule Properties Rule Content Rule ...
about 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Functionality already exists

Usability of the product with Automation frameworks like DevOps Pipelines

Please refer the Case - TS005350441 Lack of API / ANT Tasks to upload and run the Test Suites is breaking our automations and causing huge efforts to manually upload, execute and validate the test reports. We have about 100+ Rule Projects and expe...
about 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Functionality already exists

Automatic sign-off behavior for unattended bot runners should be configurable.

Currently, the host machine is returned to the state it was previously in when the unattended bot runner completes its task. It would be helpful if this was configurable. For example if we want the bot to sign on to the host machine, and then leav...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Functionality already exists

Recreate Query/Extractor for decision engine.

We need to create, deploy and execute a single ruleset using a custom application. The functionality must be the same as the Query/Extractor for classic rule projects, but we need to do this with the new decision engine.
about 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Functionality already exists

Webhook for rule changes

IBM should provide webhooks to get notified with all the rule details to a custom application when a new rule is created, when an existing rule is modified or deleted. It should be simple configuration on the DC to configure any external REST appl...
about 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 3 Functionality already exists

Add a filter to have the report of Standard Decision Service only

In the report tab, there is one link for the full report and one link for the report of main rules project. We have decision service with multiple project, in a multiple project, the main project don't have rules, the second link is empty. It woul...
about 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Functionality already exists

Add "evaluate" tool to the IBM RPA Studio

The tool would have the same functionality as the "evaluate" command. The idea is that developers can test their evaluations during implementation and also during debugging, without the need to run the evaluate command on different occasions.. Sim...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Click command support for right-clicks and double right-clicks

Currently, the click command only supports left-click and double left-clicks. It could start supporting right-clicks and double right-clicks as well. This would remove the need for using real mouse inputs to simulate right-clicks and double right-...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Functionality already exists

ICM - Documents Filter does not work together with Sort

Affected componentIBM Case Manager Solution / Case Information widget DescriptionCase Information widget is essential part of IBM Case Manager, that allows user to see overview of case. One of main parts of this widget is a Documents section used ...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Functionality already exists

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