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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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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...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Process Mining - What If - Your to-be scenario - automatic process overview update

Your to-be scenario - automatic process overview update At the level of Your-to-be scenario making changes in the Process evolutions and Configuration tabs and applying the Simulate action, the process overview is not updated. The same problem is ...
8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Collector HANA Application

we are looking for solution to integrate Cognos 11.1 with SAP HANA Application
about 6 years ago in Content Collector for SAP 0 Not under consideration

Support for presenting client certificates during outbound HTTPS calls does not exist.

Currently, Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) does not provide a straightforward mechanism to configure mutual SSL (client certificate authentication) for outbound HTTP/SOAP web service calls. This limitation impacts customers who need to s...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Allow CP4BA Admins to add a Custom PVC to the BAW Authoring and Runtime

We have deployed CP4BA v25 - BAW in our OpenShift cluster. As of now we are using the file path that is mounted by default (/opt/ibm/bawfile) to store and access BAW application specific configurations. We would like to add additional paths (custo...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Needs more information

ODM operator restart pods logic updated

When trusted certificates are updated the ODM operator delete the pods. I propose that a new task be used instead that initiates a deployment rollout instead. This way new pods spin up that will pull in the new cert without immediately taking down...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 7

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...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enhance documentation and functionality for "audit log" for Process Admin Console

Currently the Cloud Pak for Business Automation documentation explains how to enable "audit logging" to track changes that are made by administrators in the Process Admin Console. "Enabling the audit log" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Process minig - additional field with hint or explanation

Process mining - additional fields with hint or explanation In the tab Data&Settings/KPIs/KPI benchmarks/Edit process KPIs or Edit activity KPIs are parameters: "Case duration thresholds", "Case cost thresholds", "Activity throughout threshold...
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration