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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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All ideas

Visibility of available machine hours with gaps for computer runtime usage

Visibility of available machine hours with gaps for computer runtime usage with no need to manually control them.
about 1 month ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

Task mining - audit - additional info (Start time)

In the audit tab, in addition to the specified upload time (end of recording), the start time (start of recording) should also be included.
8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

Automate the cleanup of the console and messages logs created under the podname directories

Logs are created in /opt/ibm/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/logs for each pod. As pods are shutdown and restarted during kubernetes maintenance or other work, additional log directories are created, leaving the old directories in place. This requir...
4 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

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...
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

Add Polish language support to IBM Process Mining to improve accessibility for Polish-speaking users

Polish language support in IBM Process Mining will help public sector organizations work more efficiently by removing language barriers. It should include UI localization: Translate menus, messages, and help content. Documentation: Guides and tuto...
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Not under consideration

Add feature for exporting and importing favorites in ICN desktops

Often customers wants to work in several desktops where same repositories are used with the same favorites which is not possible between different desktops. So waht about an exporting and importing feature for that? This would help our customers t...
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator Future consideration

Support for Service Mesh/ISTIO on OpenShift for CP4BA

Support for Service Mesh in CP4BA would be very helpful in enterprise installations. ISTIO is very popular and often this is a required by our clients. currently CP4BA does not support Service Mesh. This is helpful for: - mTLS (Mutual Transport La...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Not under consideration

IBM FileNet Content Engine Audit Definition filter for Get Content Event

Hello, I am trying to enable a filter expression for an Audit Definition for the Get Content Event. We currently have auditing enabled in ACCE for the document class. Now we would like to add a filter expression to save only events related to busi...
2 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other Submitted

Task mining - obfuscation - data analysis info (additional description)

In order to make the application more intuitive, the icon marked in red (data analysis info) should be described without having to hover over it with the cursor (e.g. in the same way as the date range is presented)
8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

I want to see all the individual IFixes with versionInfo which are included in particular Cumulative IFix release

In the following link, we note which IFixes are included in a particular Cumulative IFix https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-business-automation-workflow-will-begin-releasing-cumulative-interim-fixes-versions-24x-and-higher It's customer expecta...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Under review