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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:

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 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...
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

IBM Process Mining

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Possibility to configure own S3 storage

Current version support IBM S3, AWS S3 and Azure, but it isn't possible to own S3 storage, for example MinIO or Ceph RGW S3.It will be good if you add possibility to configure endpoint at AWS tab, then it will be possible to configure own S3 storage.
8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Alphabetization in ONLY SOME of the dropdown lists, which can have a huge list of variables

Some filters go by execution but with a long and vast list of process steps or attributes it makes it impossible to type ahead and search for specific action. Also when editing a filter the type ahead is disabled
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Future consideration

Ability to move the activity/events around in the Model view

User is requesting to enable the activities show in the model view to be easily movable for easy accessibility/maneuver of the process view. Currently the activities within the Model is not editable and it is causing difficulty in explaining the p...
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

RBAC permission to avoid filter sharing

This is a customer scenario where they want to set some permissions for a user that can see/create filter templates, but can't share them. The idea is to create a new option within PM permissions to configure an user to be able to see/create filte...
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Unable to rename applications captured by Task mining agent

Not possible to rename application names, uses process EXE technical name for task mining.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Future consideration

Customizing technical terms

Some technical terms used in PM tool are not so common in the finance industry (counts for English as well as German). It would be great to be able to re-define technical terms (e.g. as an enhanced translation function).
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Future consideration

Ability to customize the process flow to have a clearer view of the process

No ability to customize the way that activities appear when there are multiple occurrences
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Future consideration

Clarify the expected format for timestamps

As the expected format options aren't documented, this leads to too much guessing and trial/error. Especially confusing as it appears that the syntax is closer to Java (e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1459656/how-to-get-the-current-time-i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Give "Apply dashboard filters" button to the JSPlugin widgets

There is a button for non-custom widgets to enable/disable the dashboard filters. However, there is no such a function for the JSPlugin widgets.I know by changing JS code one can write filters for the JSPlugin widget, but it will be quite inconven...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Provide user-defined highlighting for activities in model view

Currently highlighting activities is only possible for roles. It would be great to be able to select a column / field (including optional mapped fields) for which the highlighting should apply. Description of the feature select which column/field ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration