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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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DeploymentConfig API deprecated in Openshift / Kubernetes

currently the bamoe 8.x operator manages objects (kieserver, business central, smart router) via a deploymentconfig kind.deploymentconfig is deprecated on openshift 4.14, https://access.redhat.com/articles/7041372. I suggest to fix the operator to...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Planned for future release

Add the ability to store multi-value Attribute data in Enterprise Content Manager

IBM Content Manager has multi-value attributes giving the ability to store more than 1 value in each record/document set of data. This is something we use all the time for our claim documents. Currently we can add the additional values during the ...
about 1 year ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Planned for future release

Task mining - additional information about time spent (applications and webpages not included in the list)

In the Dashboard tab, after displaying information about Agent interaction, information should also be provided about the time spent in applications and pages not included in the list.
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

Simulation job parameter to show the date in the format set on DC locale - currently only showing date format in US

Users need to be able to set the locale for the dates used in the JobParameter. As See below extract from Sample <scenarioSuiteFormat locale="EN" name="loanvalidation.random.multi-thread.format" version="1.0" xmlns="http://schemas.ibm.com/rules...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Functionality already exists

Support for editing Office 365 tools directory online for self managed ECM environments

Many customer subscribes to Office365 as SaaS. They edit and store powerpoint or excel online without download the office tool on their Laptop. This also enables collaborative editing / co-authoring. For clients running ICN in self-managed environ...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Allow the creation of event thersholds per project to expand administration

Problem: The squad that works with IBM Process Mining needs to be able to control the threshold of events that each project can have, and they need this threshold to limit the data that can be uploaded. The Admn should be able to define events thr...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release

Include System-Executed Tasks in BAI Events for ML Training

The Machine Learning component in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) relies on task event data from Business Automation Insights (BAI) to train the Next Best Task (NBT) model. Currently, system-executed tasks (e.g., those completed by the Auto...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Process mining - project archiving capability

Process mining - project archiving capability In the projects/backups tab, it should be possible to generate a file for a given project for archiving purposes. The project file should include the remaining options (insight and actions, model setti...
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Allow for use of workload identities with Microsoft Entra ID

The concept of non-human accounts doesn’t exist in Microsoft Entra ID typically applications where no human interaction is involved use OAuth client credential flow as explained here (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity-platform/v2-oa...
5 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 1 Future consideration

Provide Daeja View Toolkit for BAW

We use Daeja View embedded into BAW using a toolkit originally created by an IBM employee (https://us-south.git.cloud.ibm.com/schwarzs/bpm-ui-Daeja.Document.Viewer/-/tree/master). This toolkit is very useful but is now showing it's age as BAW has ...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 8 Future consideration