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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 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...

IBM Process Mining

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 1 month ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Task mining - dashboard - the ability to download a file with errors

Task mining - dashboard - the ability to download a file with errors If errors occur during recording with a recorder, there should be an option to generate and download a file with errors. The file should be available for download for more than 2...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 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)
12 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

Task mining - statement of consent to record activities

Statement of consent to record activities After starting the recorder and (possibly) clicking “start record,” the user is presented with a message expressing consent to record activities on mapped applications. The content of this statement must b...
11 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

Task mining - Firefox browser (website names)

Task mining - Firefox browser (website names) In the case of a browser with a browser plugin (Edge), we are given the name of the website. The same should apply to Firefox or other browsers.
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2 Future consideration

Process mining - Administration (exporting reports, data)

Process mining - Administration (exporting reports, data) In the “Recent activities” tab, you can download a CSV file. The same option should be available in other tabs (Tenants, Jobs, Usage details, etc.).
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

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...
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

Task mining - allowed applications and webpages (the ability to create and save a set)

When adding applications and websites (allowed list), there should be an option to save a given set of applications and websites (e.g., Set 1 = Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint). This solution is very important because with a larger number of user...
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2 Functionality already exists

Process mining - additional suggestions (guidelines) for errors

Adding hints to help resolve a given error Adding, in the form of a comment or an additional box, information on how to solve the error (e.g. No such column "eventlog.endtime_ts"), such as providing the exact path to the tab, step or file where yo...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

Provide a public API for event log quality validation before upload

Currently, IBM Process Mining performs event log quality checks only after the file is uploaded to the platform. There is no REST API endpoint or publicly available tool that allows clients to validate their event logs before uploading them.
2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration