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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 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...

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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

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

Support for presenting client certificates during outbound HTTPS calls does not exist.

Currently, Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) does not provide a straightforward mechanism to configure mutual SSL (client certificate authentication) for outbound HTTP/SOAP web service calls. This limitation impacts customers who need to s...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

CPE: Remove relationship when deleting a child compound document

The original design documentation for the compound documents feature clearly state that when using Dynamic relationships, in some cases the relationship can point at nothing if there isn’t a version which satisfies the binding rule. Furthermore, w...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Task mining - audit - additional info (Start time)

In the audit tab, in addition to the specified upload time (end of recording), the start time (start of recording) should also be included.
4 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Need a cron job for cleaning up old cache directories

Today, ICN uses a PVC named icn-vw-cachestore to storage cached files. Each pod, when it comes up, creates a subdirectory named after itself for its own cached files. If the pods gets bounced for any reason, the pod that replaces it will create it...
4 months ago in Content Navigator 1 Submitted

Request for a data normalization mechanism between BAMOE 8.x InstanceView models and BAMOE 9.x Event POJOs

Some clients rely on custom implementations of ElasticSearchEventEmitter in BAMOE 8.x to synchronize process and task data (ProcessInstanceView, TaskInstanceView, TaskOperationView) directly with Elasticsearch. This approach ensures transactional ...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 2 Planned for future release

Task mining - obfuscation - data analysis info (additional description)

In order to make the application more intuitive, the icon marked in red (data analysis info) should be described without having to hover over it with the cursor (e.g. in the same way as the date range is presented)
4 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Unable to specify a custom version while deploying XOM to RES V8.12.0

When we deploy XOM to RES V8.12.0 by using API or from RES Console, by default it uses a sequential XOM version numbering, such as: 1.0, 2.0 etc. While deploying XOM we see only two options: 1) Increment resource major version, 2) Increment resour...
14 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Hotkey option for next problem field in Datacap Navigator

Datacap Navigator performing verify task for a batch with multiple fields containing problems. End-user would like to use the "enter" button to go to the next problem field.This is currently not possible. Only the "tab" key can go from problem fie...
15 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Functionality already exists