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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,

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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 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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Task mining - printing action problem (recorder does not see printing action in browser)

Task mining - printing action problem (recorder does not see printing action in browser) Despite adding the website address to the allowed list, when you go to this website in your browser and use the Ctrl + P keyboard shortcut, the task mining re...
19 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Submitted

Add Polish language support to IBM Process Mining to improve accessibility for Polish-speaking users

Polish language support in IBM Process Mining will help public sector organizations work more efficiently by removing language barriers. It should include UI localization: Translate menus, messages, and help content. Documentation: Guides and tuto...
19 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Submitted

WfPS should emit to BAI in a different namespace (also applies to other Workflow capabilities)

We run various flavors of CP4BA workflow capabilities (WfPS Server, BAW Runtime), which are deployed into different namespaces on the same cluster for maintainability. We attempt to consolidate the events into one Business Automation Insights - BP...
7 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Preferred login/skip_pref_login=true issue

The skip_pref_login parameter is currently functioning as expected. However, the login flow could be improved so that the skip flag persists until the user successfully logs in or explicitly navigates away.
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

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...
2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

CPE: Remove relationship when deleting a child compound document

The original design documentation for the compound documents feature clearly state that when using Dynamic relationships, in some cases the relationship can point at nothing if there isn’t a version which satisfies the binding rule. Furthermore, w...
26 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Ability to update a tag property of a business business rule using the query actions

No provision of updating tag names or values for a given business rule using action rules undermines the usage of tags in general. The only way to update the values currently is one-by-one as part of editing each business rule properties. This is ...
5 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

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
about 1 month ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Submitted

I see we can send the image to the models and get the extraction rather sending the OCR page text to watsonx.ai models. I see better accuracy for the terrible handwritten documents

I see we can send the image to the models and get the extraction rather sending the OCR page text to watsonx.ai models. I see better accuracy for the terrible handwritten documents
7 months ago in Datacap 2 Under review

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...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted