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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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Unknown variables not marked as validation errors

We have the following scenario in the Web Process Designer: The development team usually needs to perform maintenance, cleaning and restructuring of the different ProcessApps, depending on the business requirements. For this we obviously need to ...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add OR option to portal saved search filters

Our internal customers have asked us to provide a way to allow filters using OR when defining saved searches. They have told us of situation where this would be helpful, such as task subject contains Build or task subject contains Verify This c...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Process Portal - Logged In User Status

We have a Business Requirement to identify active and inactive users of Process Portal and when they last logged in. As of now, there is no provision in BAW to capture this info. This request is to persist login details of the User whenever they l...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

On viewer Access "Analyze" functionality should be the available of as due to this the customer is unable to see the details of the KPI, so you are requested to kindly provide the same.

"Analyze" functionality should be available on Viewer access
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Enhanced SAP support

IBM RPA should provide full BAPI support for SAP customers
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhance the recorder feature

The current recorder approach is confusing/quirky/unintuitive. No guidance is provided for new users (e.g. for using control key) and the approach feels unfinished.
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

View all workflow instance in Workplace

Hi Team, Client found Workplace only retrieves BPM process&Workstream. In order to convenient users to manage all work in one place, can we consider adding FileNet workflow into Workplace? Thank you!
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Select wrong workspace

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over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Access required for user deifned resource bundle variables in load&inline JS in coachview

Hi Team, Please provide access to get user defined resource bundle variables in load&inline js in coachview. If we store error messages of application in resource bundle and if we want to do validations within CV(inline js) we need to hardcode...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Have a similar indicator to the comment bubble, for activities with documentation

Currently, there is no way on knowing where there is something to read inside an activity when its been placed on the documentation section. It would be helpful to have an icon like the comments bubble, or the linked process icon.
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration