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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

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Better debugging for BAW

Debugging has several shortcomings that need to be fixed. Otherwise, it is all but impossible to properly maintain your solution! 1) There is no debug for Client-Side Human Services, like there used to be for the older style Coaches.2) Service Deb...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 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

Scripts to create SIB messaging tables should be delivered to create UTS tablespaces and not Segmented.

There are some DB2 for z/OS tablespaces created as part of BPM installation/customization that are used to store data from tables that belong to the SIB messaging engine. The script that is delivered to create those tablespaces should include opti...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Real Estate in Web Process Designer

From ALLIANZ LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES NORTH AMERICA: Real estate is an issue in Web PD compared to Desktop PD.
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Add functionality of showing running instance token on the workflow diagram to the web designer the same as it exists on the desktop designer

We wish to have in the web designer the ability to view the running instance token location visulay on the workflow diagram when an instance is instantiated and run on the Workflow Server. The same way the ability exisits in the deprecated desktop...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Ability to conduct a Comparison on BOM changes at the SnapShot level in Decision Center.

Development teams trying to determine what code changes were made by Business Teams use the Comparison feature on the current state of the release with the initial snapshot of when the release was created. Currently, BOM comparison is not availabl...
about 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Delivered

View - ECM Document Explorer - Filter document type

In the UI toolkit, there is a View called "ECM Document Explorer". This view is used to add some documents, folder, display documents ,... The problem is when adding a new document, all the document classes are displayed. There is no way to filter...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Wrong before data on Task Assignments Added event

When we change the potential owners in a human task, we get the event generated making use of TaskLifeCycleEventListener interface implementation. But we are watching that we receive the same TaskEvent object in both before and after methods of th...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Delivered

Unable to identify the user who performs the abort action on a process instance

We have detected that at the time of performing an abort, from the business central or from the api, no information appears related to the user who has performed this action. Likewise, this information is not arriving in the emitter data. Every ac...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Delivered

Extend Process Federation Server /launchableEntities API with filter for "type"

In adoption of Process Federation Server (PFS) we are moving from current solution which leverages BPM API for ".../exposed/process" - a specific use of "/exposed/{type}" as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS8JB4/co...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered