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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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

Task mining - Firefox browser (website names)

Task mining - Firefox browser (website names) In the case of a browser with a browser plugin (Edge), we are given the name of the website. The same should apply to Firefox or other browsers.
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2 Future consideration

Process mining - Administration (exporting reports, data)

Process mining - Administration (exporting reports, data) In the “Recent activities” tab, you can download a CSV file. The same option should be available in other tabs (Tenants, Jobs, Usage details, etc.).
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

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.
8 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Planned for future release

The DocuSign signature status should not always be visible in the magazine view of search results

When viewing a search result in the magazine view, the value of the Signature Status property is shown as text and always visible. There is no option to hide this property from being displayed there. This can be confusing for users because the val...
7 months ago in Content Navigator 1 Needs more information

Deleted Archived branches with an API

We have a large amount of branches and we need to do a cleanup. The only way currently to do that seems to be by following documented manual steps in Workflow Center. We'd like to be able to do this by API, this would be a huge help and reduce tim...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

To remove character restriction in Text to Blueprint (with AI)

IBM recently introduced the AI-powered Text-to-Blueprint capability in Blueworks Live, which is proving highly effective in converting textual process descriptions into process blueprints. However, the current input limitation of 5,000 characters ...
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1

Add Polish language support to IBM Process Mining to improve accessibility for Polish-speaking users

Polish language support in IBM Process Mining will help public sector organizations work more efficiently by removing language barriers. It should include UI localization: Translate menus, messages, and help content. Documentation: Guides and tuto...
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

Changing default @mycompanydomain for Process Mining operator

Users may want to see their proper email addresses being pulled directly from the Zen configuration within CP4BA deployments of IBM Process Mining. The idea is to have the email addresses properly pulled from the configuration.
about 1 month ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Native validation of third-party IdP tokens for system-to-system (no-user) calls to CP4BA/BAW REST APIs using OAuth client_credentials

Problem / gap: CP4BA IAM (Zen) currently expects an IdP -> IAM -> Zen token exchange and requires a valid AD/directory user in the token subject before it will authorise a call. It cannot natively validate arbitrary external (third-party) Id...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted