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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

All ideas

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In ODM 8.12 API "import decision service on top of the existing branch" is not removing the deleted items from the existing branch

We published a decision service to Decision Center by using the API "/v1/decisionservices/import". Then, in Rule Designer we deleted a rule and created a new ZIP for the decision service. Now, we used the API "/v1/decisionservices/decisionServiceI...
20 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Planned for future release

Process mining - possibility to download the model in jpg or png format (reference model superimposed on the actual model)

It should be possible to download the process model in jpg or png format (this refers to the process model in which the reference model is superimposed on the actual model)
21 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Submitted

Configuration option to default filter to "All Types" in Decision Center

I'm reaching out regarding the filter settings in Decision Center. Currently, the filter is persisted for each user, but there's no option to default it to "All Types" for all users or branches. Could you please consider adding a feature to allow ...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future 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...
3 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Is a defect

Bai event format configuration to have the processAppAcronym in the messages in IBM Business Automation Workflow

We would like to have the processAppAcronym in the messages in the future. Either as a default value or configurable to configure the events to contain the "processAppAcronym" - a short unique identifier for a processApp. We need it to distribute ...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Add Support for Island Enterprise Browser

The Island Enterprise Browser is not currently a supported browser in IBM RPA. Several customers are now migrating to Island as their corporate standard and need to port their existing automations to work with it. Native support in commands like "...
23 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

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...
3 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Reduce or accelerate the reconciliation cycle for implementing changes in CP4BA

Detailed Description: Currently, in Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA), whenever changes are made to component configurations, it is necessary to wait for the reconciliation cycle to run automatically for the adjustments to take effect. Thi...
2 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Enhance error notifications with detailed information and expand the administration page to allow downloading Process Mining logs directly from the GUI.

Why is it useful? Currently, IBM Process Mining users often encounter generic error messages (e.g., "Generic Error") when issues arise during data uploads, process analysis, or monitor execution. These messages provide little insight into the root...
4 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

CmAbstractDependent-based search in FileNet SQL Query

It would be convenient to be able to perform object store search based on any dependent-object property value (e.g. CmAcmBusinessObject from ICM)Currently we have to create string-serialized properties and update them constantly for searching purp...
25 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted