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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:

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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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MyWork in-basket when same user belongs to multiple roles

When the user belongs to two roles ('role1' and 'role'2) for the same case solution and the task is sent from 'role1' to 'role2', the same task is shown both in 'role2' in-basket and in 'role1' MyWork in-basket in Navigator.
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

BAMoE on RHOCP on GCP

Customer needs to deploy BAMoE on GCP in Q4 2024. For this to happen, customer needs BAMoE supported on RHOCP (or GKE) on GCP. IBM needs the approval from D&B ARB (Architectural Review Board) this month to approve the project. For this, we nee...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to fetch all the nested groups and users from a parent group

In a BAW user group, we have the option to add users as well as other BAW groups. With this approach, there is always a chance that we could have several layers of nested BAW groups. We are looking for a way (some kind of API) to find all the user...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

More dashboard elements allowed

Currently only 8 dashboard elements are allowed we should be able to have more like our competitors do
almost 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Functionality already exists

Task Mining - recognition of task variants

Group user tasks into different execution patterns (e.g., 3 ways to approve an invoice) and identify best practices
6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Support for Nutanix AHV 6.10

We have support for CP4BA on Nutanix AHV 5.10 With up-gradation of environment in customer DC, the new infrastructure is all on Nutanix ANV 6.10. Request is to add Nutanix ANV 6.10 in the supported infrastructure.
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Function to automatically perform “Refresh snapshot to parent” in background

Customer uses “Refresh snapshot to parent” function to reflect updates in parent processes. Since customer needs to frequently perform “Refresh snapshot to parent” on the production, customer wants to automatically perform it in background.
about 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to change default sorting of documents attached to a case

When users rely on document attachments for work on cases, they may need to sort them on other fields than the document name.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Functionality already exists

Allow a parameter to the Bulk Instance Details REST API method to only bring back the executionTree

We have situations where we need to move the token. The only place to get the token ids (that we have found) is the Bulk Instance Details method in the REST API. It brings back everything. We would like to have an option for the parts parameter to...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Increase the Case Manager in-basket filter to more than 200

The number of work items that are contained in an in-basket is displayed on the tab next to the in-basket name. The default paging size is 200 and is not configurable, as an IBM Content Navigator implementation. technote: In-baskets - IBM Document...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists