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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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

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Provide user-centric API which can show "direct" memberships to BPM "groups"

We want to be able to provision some new users who will have the same authority and visibility as some existing users.We are currently relying on a SQL query provided by our IBM Support Engineer, and are aware this isn't a "supported" technique be...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Pre-delete dependency check and cleanup utility: API to detect and optionally remove blocking Manager / manager-task dependencies before snapshot delete

When deleting process snapshots in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW), administrators often face failures caused by underlying Manager-task dependencies that are not visible in advance.These dependencies are typically created as part of in-fli...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Task mining - obfuscation - data analysis info (additional description)

In order to make the application more intuitive, the icon marked in red (data analysis info) should be described without having to hover over it with the cursor (e.g. in the same way as the date range is presented)
about 1 month ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

CMOD product inbuilt core dump enablement

Currently whenever there are any issues with CMOD like if it crashes abnormally or hangs for various reasons then ARSSOCKD would require restart to bring back the service but to get into RCA IBM team would need necessary trace log files and these ...
about 1 month ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Do not display implementation name for postponed task

When a user opens a task in a new window and selects the postpone option in that task, the CSHS implementation name will be displayed to the user. From a business perspective, this information should not be displayed to the user because the CSHS n...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Change rest command prompt to use a secondary prompt for password entry

Our security policy is to not allow developers/admins to have production passwords. The rest command structure requires the password be entered, and entered in the clear. Change the prompt to recognize not including the password and then provide a...
about 1 month ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Seggregate data per role/user

We are working on a project that has data from a very large organization (300+ teams, 3.000+ people) which has a hierarchy and we would like to be able to seggregate the data that each person/group can see using 1 project. We would like to be able...
about 1 month ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Task mining - audit - additional info (Start time)

In the audit tab, in addition to the specified upload time (end of recording), the start time (start of recording) should also be included.
about 1 month ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Task mining - filtered statistics (specific ones, recording sessions - showing date and time)

After selecting “Specific ones” in Filtered statistics, expanding Recording sessions should allow you to select a recording along with the specified date and times (start and end of recording). This information should replace the current default f...
about 2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Rest WorkItemHandler that support OIDC

In my business process, I need to call a REST web service that is secured by OpenID Connect. So I need to get a token from the autorization server first, then include the token in the header of the call to my webservice. We need a REST workItemHan...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Future consideration