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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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Long list of data objects available to build a guided rule

We use around five to eight data objects per rule and we need to browse them in the extensive list available. Also, the names appear similar, and it confuses the user.
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Not under consideration

Add POP3 Support to IBM RPA

A customer has a bunch on linux servers and they use the POP3 servers on these machines to orchestrate them. They are aware of the fact that this is no future-proof solution but it will not change soon. In order to automate these mechanisms RPA wo...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

IBM BAW on CP4BA plugin to accept same WSDL format of type "document" in container and non container environment.

We have identified an incompatibility with WSDL generated by IBM ODM while importing that WSDL in IBM BAW environment, if the Target environment of the toolkit is set to "TRAD or CON" "Traditional or Container".It was working perfectly as expected...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Page title remains the same throughout the case creation process. For example "US Fraud"

Page title should be auto changed based on the current opened page
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Page title remains the same throughout the case creation process. For example "US Fraud"

The Page title should be changed based on the opened page
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

添付ファイルを複数のアクティビティから共通でアクセスしたい

複数のアクティビティから共通で同じ添付資料へアクセスしたい ※ファイルの修正を効率化するため
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

アクティビティ内文書のwordへの出力

アクティビティの文書へ入力した書式加工や表が、wordへ出力をするとうまく出力できない。 入力したものと見たまま同じように出力してほしい
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Copy & Paste a List of Activities into Discovery Map Process Outline from Excel/Word

When building process maps in Discovery Map mode, having the ability copy and paste a list of activities from a spreadsheet or text document into Process Outline would expedite model development. Not just a single activity, but a list of multiple ...
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Loop detection. Rules loops that cause memory overloads should shut down gracefully

When creating a rules project that calls another rules project, but accidentally gets called back you end up in an endless loop. This loop causes a memory overflow which crashes the server. It would be better if an error is thrown so that the deve...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Not under consideration

Can we add Risk name and description in metadata along with its severity which is already an existing feature

If we can include risk name and description in metadata then every time we extract the process and activity from bluworks it would be readily available for analysis of process improvement. It can help the analyst to have all the required informati...
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration