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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:

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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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

Reserve capacity for specefic projects

Implementing capacity reservation for specific projects in RPA would offer improved resource allocation, improved scalability. This could also help organization optimize their RPA deplyments.
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Enhance ARSYSPIN STORLIMIT to accept truncated segment of sysout into the current collection

Currently, the ARSYSPIN STORLIMIT keyword allows three actions: abend, hold, and retry. We set a size limit in MB or GB, and when the collection has an incoming selection of sysout/spool file that is larger than the limit, it can only do three thi...
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Future consideration

Request for official list to provide detailed information on container images versions, file sizes, digest names in the latest or future versions of CP4BA, FNCM Standalone containers or on-prem CPE and client applications

Government agencies require itemized list of software applications for purchase approval purposes. The system is called TRM. Technical Reference Model (TRM) is a set of categorized software and non-commodity hardware products that is the starting ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Add connection to DB2 for Process Apps

As we aim to process data from IBM Software like Maximo or IBM Control Desk in IBM Process Mining we want to be able to access a DB2. Furthermore, I would expect all the tools within IBM to be easy to use with each other. So DB2 as a data source s...
about 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Possibility to configure own S3 storage

Current version support IBM S3, AWS S3 and Azure, but it isn't possible to own S3 storage, for example MinIO or Ceph RGW S3.It will be good if you add possibility to configure endpoint at AWS tab, then it will be possible to configure own S3 storage.
about 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

None of the links work in the trial version

It is a bug and fixing this might actually let someone be able to try
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Customizing technical terms

Some technical terms used in PM tool are not so common in the finance industry (counts for English as well as German). It would be great to be able to re-define technical terms (e.g. as an enhanced translation function).
about 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Future consideration

Add support for AWS Managed Microsoft AD service for Business Automation Workflow (BAW) on Containers (not CP4BA).

We are an IBM partner, and our long-term IBM Case Management Federal customer is migrating from IBM Case Manager, users in AWS Managed Microsoft AD service, on a Linux environment to Containers on AWS. The customer does not need the full BAW capab...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Ability to customize the process flow to have a clearer view of the process

No ability to customize the way that activities appear when there are multiple occurrences
about 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Future consideration

Logs created by Task mining agent does not use host ID for resource name

Logs should use Host ID as this could be a different user
about 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Not under consideration