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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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Enable User to Assign a Name when using the reassignTo JS API to prevent the usage of "Temporary Group" as the display name.

Tasks created via a Team Filter Service are provided custom names for ex: "The Analyst Team", or "Level 1 Processors". However, after a reassign is done via the JS API TWTask.reassignTo. BPM Just always creates an adhoc group with DISPLAY_NAME as ...
28 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Would like to have a multi-thread upload for large documents across filenet APIs using GRAPH QL.

Our business users would benefit from it because they sometimes have large documents to upload.
about 1 month ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Under review

Field Validation required enhancement on Plain-Text contro

Plain text display error even after correcting the value with valid data. Scenario: If a text field already has a pre-populated value. The user clicks on the text field and enters an invalid input that does not match the defined regular expression...
7 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

IBM Navigator / Edit Service OIDC Support

Today we are using Edit Service with SAML on Weblogic. We are in the transition to CP4BA and it is the company's rule to implement SSO with OIDC. We are requesting to enhance the Navigator Edit Service to support OIDC for SSO.
8 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

request to support credential override through projects like we had for schedulers

This would be helpful for Customer to simplify daily work
19 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Submitted

GraphQL query choicelist values

GraphQL (unlike REST) allows you obtain several information about object in one request. But it doesn't allow to obtain display value of choicelist property (when query for folders/documents or other records) Moreover it doesn't allow to obtain ch...
21 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Restore the Pan view feature in the new ruleflow editor

When looking at large / complex ruleflows in the new editor (in Rule Designer 9.0), using horizontal & vertical scrollbars is tedious. It was much easier to do so in the previous legacy editor, with the 'Pan' mode. Ideally, there could be a wa...
9 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

IBM Process Mining Simulation with Parallelism

Currently, Parallelism is not supported for the simulation engine in IBM Process Mining. The customer wants it included in IBM Process Mining to analyze such type of processes.
4 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Customize and add new assigned task email templates

•How to modify existing templates externalmailprocesslink_{0}.html and externalmailnoprocess_{0}.html •How can I provide a custom once to be used as templates? Custom styling, corporate design, custom order of data, logos, ... •What are the data a...
19 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Create a queue to allow multiple files uploads, optimizing the user's time.

IBM Process Mining should allow the upload of several CSV's at the same time (even if they are not uploaded simultaneously, the option to select at once all the files we want to upload would optimize the time of the analyst responsible for this ta...
4 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release