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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 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

End point can link to an activity in different map/process

This case is very useful when there is continued activities in another map/process instead of end the process. Users need to continue the activities by following the another map (Not from start but the second or third activity in a new map). When ...
9 months ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

EC to BC migration: Business rule version history no longer shows the "Used In"

When you look at a rule history in the Enterprise Console, you get a column "Used In" It shows for each version which branches / baseline uses this version of the rule. However, this information is missing in the Business Console. Not available in...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 8

Filenet & Azure Blob storage integration

As of now, FileNet and Azure Blob can be configured together only using shared key. However, due to known risks and issues shared key access is disabled in some organizations. Alternative way of making this connection (e.g. using Azure Active Dire...
about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 3 Under review

Add support for HEIC formats

Our claims department receives images from people taking pictures with their phones in the field. IPhone users some time send us HEIC format images. We would like to store these files natively in our IBM Content Manager 8 system. We can add suppor...
4 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Submitted

Native Deployment scheduling feature within IBM Decision Center

We recommend introducing a native deployment scheduling feature within IBM Decision Center. This capability would allow business users to define a specific date and time for deploying rule changes to the Decision Server without requiring external ...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Code management in Process Center

Code management in Process Center is very limited; standard code repositories enable you to do branching and merging. Tracks offer a very limited branch capability, but there is no way to merge tracks other than manually moving items (which is a v...
almost 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 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...
about 2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 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...
about 2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 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...
about 2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 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...
about 2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration