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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,

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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

All ideas

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.
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

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

Make DNS resolution behavior configurable for FileNet P8 CPE directory configurations when using LDAPS

FileNet Content Platform Engine currently resolves configured LDAP/LDAPS hostnames into individual IP addresses when a DNS alias with multiple A records is used. This behavior is acceptable for standard LDAP failover scenarios, but it creates a li...
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Provide native support to calculate and report historical Business Turnaround Time (Business TAT) for completed BPMN tasks using configured Work Schedules and Holiday Schedules

The customer requires the ability to calculate the Business Turnaround Time (Business TAT) for both historical and future BPMN tasks. Business TAT represents the elapsed working time between task lifecycle events (for example, task creation/claim ...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

When Case feature is the default feature for a desktop, 'Folder Filed In' document property should still be displayed in ICN browse feature.

This functionality is important for identifying documents that are not properly filed within the parent folder. Given that the workflow can be unpredictable at times, it provides a quick way for teams to locate and resolve document issues without ...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 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)
12 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

Netapp SnapLock Customers are not welcome in the containerized world

There are many customers in the fields which are using FileNet Content Manager since years successfully in combination with Netapp SnapLock volumes. They have created many volumes due to compliance reasons. They have grouped volumes for each year ...
almost 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 2 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...
11 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

CP4BA front door (Zen) does not natively honor or accept tokens provided directly by external IdPs

Our partner applications consume CP4BA REST APIs to support key business functionalities. Currently, these partner applications authenticate using tokens issued by external Identity Providers (IdPs), such as PingFederate, and send these tokens to ...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release