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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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Decision Center needs to provide REST API based Microsoft Active Directory connection to Sync group users

Currently, Decision Center provides LDAP and SCIM based connections for user registry. We use Microsoft Active Directory as a user registry and it doesn't support LDAP or SCIM. We know that, Microsoft Active Directory does not have a publicly expo...
28 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Decision Center does not have Rest API to Enforce Project Security

Currently, we use the following manual procedure to Enforce Project Security in Decision Center Console: Login to Decision Center Console Click on "Project Security" tab Hover mouse over "Branch/Project" row Click on "Pencil Icon" New popup window...
28 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Task Mining - recognition of task variants

Group user tasks into different execution patterns (e.g., 3 ways to approve an invoice) and identify best practices
about 2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Support for Nutanix AHV 6.10

We have support for CP4BA on Nutanix AHV 5.10 With up-gradation of environment in customer DC, the new infrastructure is all on Nutanix ANV 6.10. Request is to add Nutanix ANV 6.10 in the supported infrastructure.
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Built-in root cause analysis

Automatic detection of the causes of process problems (e.g., delays, errors, bottlenecks) and recommendation of corrective actions.
about 2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Allow a parameter to the Bulk Instance Details REST API method to only bring back the executionTree

We have situations where we need to move the token. The only place to get the token ids (that we have found) is the Bulk Instance Details method in the REST API. It brings back everything. We would like to have an option for the parts parameter to...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Request tool for the IBM BAW instances and tasks migration to CP4BA BAW environment

Hi, Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC has successfully acquired the IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) platform as part of our continued efforts to modernize and streamline business process automation capabilities. We are currently undertak...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

Support external MonetDB

Support of the use of external MonetDB
3 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2 Functionality already exists

We would like to see CMOD function with passwordless IDs, esp. for ARS* tasks or remote connections.

Currently all ARS* started tasks and any remote connections that we have to CMOD use an ID and password wherein the passwords are stored in the stash file during the instance creation. Recently there were some issues occurred wherein the IDs got r...
4 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Functionality already exists

Capability to have JWT authentication for BPM REST Endpoints as provider for consumer applications

Capability to have JWT authentication for BPM REST Endpoints as provider for consumer applications. Currently it is Basic Authentication but since majority of the enterprise are on more robust authentication patterns such as JWT, it will make more...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Functionality already exists