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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...

All ideas

Enterprise requires the use of organization-approved, custom CA‑signed certificates. Add support in the CP4BA Operator to allow customers to configure custom signed leaf certificates for the OpenSearch route, without requiring the creation of a custom Issuer. 

When running CP4BA in a public cloud environment need to securely connect from on‑premises systems to OpenSearch. Many enterprises require the use of organization-approved, custom CA‑signed certificates to meet internal security and compliance sta...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

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...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Process mining - the ability to read data from GCP Cloud

Process Mining - the ability to read data from the GCP Cloud "Create schedule source retrieval from cloud storage" options, the ability to read data from the GCP Cloud Storage should be added. The GCP Cloud Storage is used by the organization for ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 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 ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 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-...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Process mining - exclude weekends option

Process mining - exclude weekends option Adding "exclude weekends" in the data cleansing tab. Example use: After mapping the data it should be possible to not counting processing time during weekends (because people don't work during weekends) An ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

BAI should support Reporting features of Opensearch Dashboard

When the BPC dashboard features are not sufficient, clients are free to connect Opensearch Dashboard (according to the docs). A very common requirement for Opensearch Dashboard is the reporting feature, which e.g. allows the client to download rep...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Provide an equivalent Machine Learning Integration ability in ODM 9.0 & 9.5 to that currently found in ADS

The existing Machine Learning Integration ability in ODM v9.0 & v9.5 is deficient for our needs as it only supports models deployed into IBM Cloud Pak for Data. We are looking to integrate both rules and model into a single decision management...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Use of OpenAPI Properties allOf, oneOf, anyOf

Business Case need use of the allOf, oneOf, anyOf provided from Rest OpenAPI
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Enable GraphQL query on process vaiables

Need to query workflo data with GraphQL and specifiy criteria on process variable. Actually process variables are not queryable. Let say I have a Type candidate with fields : name, age, salary Than I have a process variable of type candidate Then ...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x 0 Planned for future release