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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...

IBM Process Mining

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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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Planned for future release

Allow the upload of multiple reference models

In complex processes, where multiple vendor, service providers, companies etc are involved, it would be good to be able to upload several reference models, and perform the conformance checking agains one model at a time based on a set of filters s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Planned for future release

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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Future consideration

Add new filters

it will useful to have the possibility to filter for: Processes only with all activities in rangeProcesses that are active in the time rangeProcesses that have recorded at least one change of status in the period
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Members of owner group should have rights for uploading and editing reference models

you can only upload a reference model to a process only if you are the owner of the process. In this instance, owner means the creator of the process. If you are using a process that is shared with you, then this feature appears as disabled. Use...
about 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Future consideration

IBM Process Mining to allow dashboard filters to be applied on the event level

Currently, IBM Process Mining only allows filters to be applied as a case attribute. It means that the tasks and parameters listed would display data for cases. Customers need to display filtered data regarding each event, depending on how the das...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

IBM Process Mining wildcards - more flexibility for Task Classification

Currently, IBM Process Mining only allows some specific combination of characters and digits to define wildcards. We suggest a more flexible management of the strings, such as: possibilities to define ranges (e.g. 0 to 34 characters, digits), poss...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Collaborating within Process Mining

By tagging and commenting while analyzing, it is good to save the state including the filter and so on, so save the analyze current state and share it with somebody within the organization. The recipients should also receive a message via email or...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

Support to apply a custom skin to the UI to match customers CI

Like in IBM Content Navigator, support the ability to add custom skins to the complete UI to match customers CI settings for logos, colors, fonts, etc.
over 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Future consideration