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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

Visual Studio Plugin for ODM Rule Development

ODM provides Eclipse Rule Designer Plugin. None for Vistual Studio. VS is the IDE of choice for CoPilot. Need ability to leverage LLM capabilities using ODM regardless of persona ( Developer vs Business user) and use any model of choice
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release

Process minig - additional field with hint or explanation

Process mining - additional fields with hint or explanation In the tab Data&Settings/KPIs/KPI benchmarks/Edit process KPIs or Edit activity KPIs are parameters: "Case duration thresholds", "Case cost thresholds", "Activity throughout threshold...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Effective management of simulation Jobs ( viz identifying #simulations running at any time)

Customer is looking for a feature to - Identify the number of simulation’s running and their status (e.g. “RUNNING”) in DC Runner at any point in time. - To manage the simulation batch jobs effectively e.g. queuing or rejecting the simulation requ...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Retrieval of group name associated to a batch

We would need a supported API, database query, RuleRunner action or .NET API method that allows a custom action running in RuleRunner to retrieve the Group Name(s) of the group(s) associated with the current batch at runtime
6 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Task mining - task classification - recording view update

Task mining - task classification - recording view update After enabling the Timestamp visibility option, you can see that the order does not fully correspond to the actual process flow (with the correct chronology) In each case, the earliest acti...
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Is a defect

Enable the configuration of global libraries/shared libraries (java) (Ref case TS018621875)

Context: We are migrating from twas BAW 23.0.2 to latest CP4BA version. In our BAW process applications we use external services extensively. Mostly to integrate with in-house rest/soap services. These external services(java code) all read propert...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Remove the case-sensitivity check when an instance is launched in PFS Process Portal

As worked on case TS013115945, when a user is updated in LDAP from lower to uppercase of vice-versa, PFS and BAW does not update the user as expected since it checks the full path with no case-sensitivity… if it matches the exact same path, it’s s...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

PFS able to federate multiple cells in different namespaces on the same cluster.

It is needed for PFS on Cloud Pak for Business Automation to be able to federate cells on-premise/traditional BAW and also other cells in different namespaces on the same cluster where PFS is instantiated. This has already been discussed with Seba...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Integrate Absence Management Features into IBM BAW

In complex and long running processes implemented with IBM BAW where many different workers are involved in activities a way of managing absence of workers and specific named substitutes for taking over the ongoing activities is needed. IBM BAW un...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration