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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 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...
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

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Task Mining - suggestions for automating micro-tasks

Automated prompts, for example: “this task takes an average of 3 minutes and occurs 100 times a day - it's worth automating.”
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Integration with RPA tools in real time

Enabling automatic detection of locations where robots can replace manual labor and immediate implementation of automation, such as in UiPath or Automation Anywhere
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Ability to migrate dynamic teams from one snapshot to another

The migration of process instances and tasks will not transfer teams or manager teams to a new snapshot context when a team filter service is used. The teams associated with a task that utilizes a team filter service will block the deletion of the...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Case Insensitive Searching

Searches and Stored Searches should allow the option to perform case insensitive searches, on both the complete search, or optionally for each string property being searched. FileNet Supports case insensitive searching on single properties being s...
7 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Ability to organise BC queries in folder

Currently queries are organised in BC in a flat structure. Without any level of hierarchies, it is cumbersome to search the queries especially when the number of queries exceed a few hundreds. Queries are also essential to defining decision operat...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

add ssl connection ability to bpmdc.sh

Only have secured communication allowed so not currently able to run the bpmdc.sh script to be able to dump tables for troubleshooting capabilities.
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

mTLS support for ODM on Kubernetes required for Apigee integration

mTLS (mutual TLS) protocol is required for ODM on K8S for Apigee integration. Mathias Mouly has stated that it's possible to mTLS support for ODM on Kubernetes See Slack thread: https://ibm-cloud.slack.com/archives/C7L0AD0PJ/p1737652228664479?thre...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

Preserving sequence of toolkits when importing process apps

One of the steps during the migration is exporting all the process applications from existing process center on IPas (Workflow Center on Traditional WAS) and importing them into a new / empty process center on container / OpenShift platform (CP4BA...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Create button for group sync

As today we have a button on the UI for users sync but need to access swagger and run the group sync through api. It would be easier and intuitive to have this api displayed as buttons on the UI.
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Future consideration

Dark mode for case workers

Due to current laws being implemented we need to add functionality for our case workers, if they choose to, have dark mode in our Client Side Human Services. Are there any plans to add Dark mode as a user setting, just as language, for case worker...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration