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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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IBM Process Mining

Administration - Usage details (drop-down list)

In the Usage details (administration) tab, there should be a drop-down list for Number of processes, Number of events, Storage size, and Number of active task mining agents. This is the same option that is available for Number of active business u...
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

Business Administrator - new administrative role

Business Administrator is a conceptual administrative role in IBM Process Mining, responsible for comprehensive management of the organizational structure and users within the environment, but without access to Tenant configuration and without the...
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Functionality already exists

Process mining - possibility to download the model in jpg or png format (reference model superimposed on the actual model)

It should be possible to download the process model in jpg or png format (this refers to the process model in which the reference model is superimposed on the actual model)
8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

Moving the endpoint configuration from appsettings.json to the Task Mining Agent application

During the installation of the Task Mining Agent, the endpoint must be specified upfront and can be modified only via the appsettings.json file. In a corporate environment, editing this file is restricted to users with Windows administrator privil...
9 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

REST API for Individual Dataset Deletion and Dataset ID Management

Currently, Process Mining does not provide a REST API for deleting an individual uploaded CSV dataset. Customers who need to remove data must rely on a workaround that uploads an empty CSV containing only the header row while using dataSetOverride...
27 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

Dataset Management and Upload History APIs

After a successful CSV upload, there is currently no REST API that allows users to determine which datasets exist within a project, when they were uploaded, how many records they contain, or whether they can be downloaded. Who would benefit from i...
27 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

API for Discovering and Listing Projects Within an Organization

When projects are created through POST /integration/processes, the returned projectKey must be captured and manually maintained by the client. There is currently no public API that allows users to retrieve the list of projects associated with an o...
27 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

The upload API should reject records that are missing mandatory fields instead of making the client validate everything

The /integration/csv/{projectKey}/upload API currently accepts records where mandatory fields (process_id, activity_name, start_time, and user_id) contain NULL or empty values. This can negatively impact process mining results and data quality. Be...
27 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

Enhance error notifications with detailed information and expand the administration page to allow downloading Process Mining logs directly from the GUI.

Why is it useful? Currently, IBM Process Mining users often encounter generic error messages (e.g., "Generic Error") when issues arise during data uploads, process analysis, or monitor execution. These messages provide little insight into the root...
11 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

Task mining - possibility of entering the address into the local path on the computer

Task mining - possibility of entering the address into the local path on the computer There should be an ability to insert the address into the local path on the computer, with the ability to open it in a browser other than URL
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration