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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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IBM Process Mining

REST API for Individual Dataset Deletion and Dataset ID Management

Currently, Process Mining does not provide a REST API for deleting an individual uploaded CSV dataset. Customers who need to remove data must rely on a workaround that uploads an empty CSV containing only the header row while using dataSetOverride...
4 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

Dataset Management and Upload History APIs

After a successful CSV upload, there is currently no REST API that allows users to determine which datasets exist within a project, when they were uploaded, how many records they contain, or whether they can be downloaded. Who would benefit from i...
4 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

API for Discovering and Listing Projects Within an Organization

When projects are created through POST /integration/processes, the returned projectKey must be captured and manually maintained by the client. There is currently no public API that allows users to retrieve the list of projects associated with an o...
4 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

The upload API should reject records that are missing mandatory fields instead of making the client validate everything

The /integration/csv/{projectKey}/upload API currently accepts records where mandatory fields (process_id, activity_name, start_time, and user_id) contain NULL or empty values. This can negatively impact process mining results and data quality. Be...
4 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

Support for 32-bit Task Mining client

This enhancement request is to support 32-bit Task Mining client on Windows for the future.
11 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

Support IAM roles for S3 uploads

Today, uploading files to S3 only works with static AWS Access Key + Secret Key credentials (plus the bucket). This forces customers to create and share long-lived credentials, which is a security concern and doesn't fit how many AWS teams operate...
about 2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

Improve error messages on file upload

When a file upload fails, the product currently shows a generic "Generic Error" with no detail about what went wrong. This makes it hard for customers to diagnose and fix the problem on their own, and it drives avoidable support requests. We shoul...
about 2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

Delete events through the API

For IBM IPM products, most tasks are performed through the user interface. However, a REST API is available for certain functions. API documentation: IBM Process Mining REST API While it is possible to register and retrieve events through the API,...
about 1 month ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

[Action Hub] Support for Creating a service integration with OAuth authetication method

Enable secure, standards-based connectivity by allowing users to create service integrations using OAuth 2.0 authentication. This feature streamlines third-party system connections, supports token-based authorization flows (e.g., authorization cod...
6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

[Action Hub] Support for rotative passwords using SMTP server

Enable secure email delivery by supporting rotative passwords for SMTP authentication stored into a Vault. Instead of relying on static credentials, the rely on Vault Server (Authorization) and get temporary passwords associated with a specific id...
6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration