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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

IBM Process Mining

Process minig - additional field with hint or explanation

Process mining - additional fields with hint or explanation In the tab Data&Settings/KPIs/KPI benchmarks/Edit process KPIs or Edit activity KPIs are parameters: "Case duration thresholds", "Case cost thresholds", "Activity throughout threshold...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 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.
3 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

Task mining - task classification - recording view update

Task mining - task classification - recording view update After enabling the Timestamp visibility option, you can see that the order does not fully correspond to the actual process flow (with the correct chronology) In each case, the earliest acti...
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Is a defect

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

Task mining - the ability to classify several tasks at once

Task mining - the ability to classify several tasks at once At the Task Classification stage, after filtering out specific applications, it should be possible to classify several tasks at the same time within specific applications. This solution g...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

Task mining - task classification - additional filter (filter by task)

Task mining - task classification - additional filter (filter by task) At the Task Classification stage, it should be possible to “filter by task,” as is the case with applications (“filter by application”) and pages (“filter by page”). This is ve...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

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.
over 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release