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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).


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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 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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Availability of Pluggable Variable Persistence (PVP) in BAMOE 9.3 or higher

From the documentation page of BAMOE 9.3.0 we can see that Pluggable variable persistence is currently not supported [1] Are you planning to support it in future release? We are using it in our applications built on top of BAMOE 8.x When are you p...
1 day ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

Task mining - statement of consent to record activities

Statement of consent to record activities After starting the recorder and (possibly) clicking “start record,” the user is presented with a message expressing consent to record activities on mapped applications. The content of this statement must b...
18 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

BAW CI/CD support to other Git hosts (e.g., Bitbucket and GitLab)

product support for BAW CI/CD support to other Git hosts (e.g., Bitbucket and GitLab)
19 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Include Azure Git as a provider for BAMOE Canvas

In my organization, we are using Azure Git, and actually this is not an available option when importing projects into BAMOE Canvas. Can you make this possible in the future?
20 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

add 'Current Date' within saved search filter

In both Process Portal saved searches and Workplace reusable searches, the current 'Due Date' filter only supports a calendar-based selection, requiring users to choose a specific date. However, the client needs to have saved search that shows end...
21 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

We would like to integrate Business automation workflow with co-pilot

Integration of BAW with co-pilot would allow coding to be much quicker
26 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

ODM RES "Creation Date" is from when the deployment artifact is kicked off from Decision Center and not when it was deployed to the RES.

The "Creation Date" is from Decision Center, but from an audit perspective we need to be able to evidence when the ruleset was deployed to the RES. These times can be roughly the same if you push from directly form Decision Center to the RES, but ...
26 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

Add LSW_TASK.READ_DATETIME attribute to TWTask JS API

I have a customer requirement to capture the date/time a task was claimed, but it appears that the only way to obtain this data is from the READ_DATETIME column in the LSW_TASK table - it is not exposed via the TWTask JS API. It would be very help...
30 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enhance error notifications with detailed information and expand the administration page to allow downloading Process Mining logs directly from the GUI.

Why is it useful? Currently, IBM Process Mining users often encounter generic error messages (e.g., "Generic Error") when issues arise during data uploads, process analysis, or monitor execution. These messages provide little insight into the root...
about 1 month ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Official support for dual-FQDN operation in CP4BA / Cloud Pak for Data (Zen Front Door): external user FQDN + internal service-to-service FQDN

Many regulated customers must separate end-user traffic from service-to-service traffic across security zones (e.g., Internet → DMZ vs. East-West inside the intranet). Today, Zen Front Door supports a single entry point. If we expose both an exter...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration