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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,

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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 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

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More colors for Analytics/Dashboard graphs

When drawing graphs in dashboard, we can see data from different activity or resource will be showed in different colours for better understanding. However, the types of colors is limited to 10. Therfore, if there are more than 10 kinds of data sh...
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0

Ability to customize the process flow to have a clearer view of the process

No ability to customize the way that activities appear when there are multiple occurrences
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Future consideration

Logs created by Task mining agent does not use host ID for resource name

Logs should use Host ID as this could be a different user
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Not under consideration

Optimization of display of large (e.g.400 activities) process models

For really large processes, ability to zoom out so that the complete process graph can be displayed, including a small overview window identifying the actually displayed portion of the process with a moving and resizing frame an a small view of th...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Planned for future release

IBM Process Mining to allow OR gateways to be used in a simulation

Currently, OR gateways in a Process BPMN are not supported when running a simulation. This limitation may not allow a key functionality (simulation) to be used when the process gateways cannot be changed from OR to XOR. Supporting it and allowing ...
5 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Give "Apply dashboard filters" button to the JSPlugin widgets

There is a button for non-custom widgets to enable/disable the dashboard filters. However, there is no such a function for the JSPlugin widgets.I know by changing JS code one can write filters for the JSPlugin widget, but it will be quite inconven...
5 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Improve tenant integration

We would like to work with a 3-tier system as follows: 1. tenant = bank 2. Organisation = business domain 3. process = type of process by naming convention The handling of tenants could be improved to level such as organisations
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Future consideration

Remove inconsistency for activity work time resolution

When managing "activity working time", the smallest number you can store is 1 minute. When defining "working time" in BPA it offers to work in seconds. In order for both to work together appropriately, "activity working time" should also allow for...
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Planned for future release

Need a downgrading process

We do have an upgrading process for PM and TM:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/process-mining/1.14.1?topic=environments-upgrading-process-mining However, for business reasons, such as a function disabled/changed in the new version, a client may want to...
5 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

Share Simulation as well as BPA models.

BPA models can be shared with all the users of the organization which the model belongs to. Share BPA models - IBM Documentation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/process-mining/1.13.2?topic=analysis-how-share-bpa-models But, the Simulation for shared m...
11 months ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Future consideration