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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...

All ideas

DocuSign/IBM Integration: Use document name as subject line

When sending a document from the DMS via DocuSign, the predefined text "Complete with docusing:" appears in the subject line, but the document name is not filled in (see png-file #2). In our opinion, this is an error, as we have observed that when...
5 months ago in Content Navigator 1 Needs more information

Add an Owner attribute to Blueworks Live workspaces, visible in the UI and accessible via API.

User unable to see or set an Owner field when opening a workspace (specific Workspace) or through any API.
6 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Planned for future release

Presently in Cloud Pak for Business Automation - there is provision of configuring only 1 LDAP server - need to have a failover/HA configuration available

For any customer environment, would there be any outage on LDAP server -however, small it maybe (even less than 2 mins) or even it could be a loss of connectivity to LDAP server for a tiny period (less than 1 min) - the entire environment become u...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

Develop API endpoints to support user and license management requirements?

develop the following API endpoints to support user and license management requirements? Get User License Develop an API endpoint to retrieve the current license assigned to a user. Modify User License Develop an API endpoint to update the license...
29 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Enable fetching of oidc access_token from zen/foundational services to use for authenticating downstream services.

It is useful because it would enable us to authentienticate downstream services (BAW external services) with access_token generated from OIDC flow (and ideally compatible with this: Invoking CP4BA APIs using custom authentication tokens). From BAW...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Add Support for TreeModel PMML Models created in SPSS Modeller into ADS

Currently ADS only supports the import of PMML Model ScoreCard and RuleSet definitions. SPSS Modeller in Cloud Pak for Data often creates TreeModel PMML definition files that contain decision table logic that could be mapped to an ADS decision tab...
almost 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Task mining - allowed applications and webpages (the ability to create and save a set)

When adding applications and websites (allowed list), there should be an option to save a given set of applications and websites (e.g., Set 1 = Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint). This solution is very important because with a larger number of user...
6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2 Functionality already exists

Task mining - dashboard - the ability to download a file with errors

Task mining - dashboard - the ability to download a file with errors If errors occur during recording with a recorder, there should be an option to generate and download a file with errors. The file should be available for download for more than 2...
12 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

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)
11 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 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...
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration