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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 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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“Critical” Flagging option within Property Field

Currently there is no option to flag Critical values within Property Fields Currently the resolution is to update 2 Property Fields. 1 for Critical values and 1 for Non-Critical values. This is creating double work to populate in 2 different field...
9 months ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Role-level based Activity map and Social net

Data mapping is required when uploading CSV and creating processes. We can then assign the resources and roles associated with the activities. Activity map and Social net in "Resource mapping" will be displayed properly if data mapping is complete...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Planned for future release

Selection fields added to export

When exporting information from spaces/maps you can do this in different formats which have varying levels of information depending on the way it is exported (e.g. word document exports process information all meta data etc, whereas powerpoint doe...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Allow securing IBM Automation Foundation Kafka routes by customer-provided certificates

Customer is on 21.0.3 version and soon planning to upgrade to 24.0.0 version , in this case IAF will be replaced by CPfs. Need to check if asked problem will be resolved or not after upgrade ? ................................... Customer is using ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

Add "Email Send IBM BPM Email" service into System Data toolkit for BAW Container environment

Based on current BAW documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/22.x?topic=reference-system-data-toolkit "Email Send IBM BPM Email" service is not supported in BAW container version, which causes the existing applications developed from BAW on...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improving Bot Project Scheduling with Custom Intervals

To enhance the flexibility of scheduling bots, I suggest adding an option to use custom intervals directly (similar to the old scheduling system). This feature would allow users to specify an interval (e.g., 36 minutes) for bot executions without ...
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

SMTP username and password authentication

Case TS003547354 Currently, there is no way for IBM BAW to use SMTP server that requires username and password authentication. This applies for both process center and server.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add connection to DB2 for Process Apps

As we aim to process data from IBM Software like Maximo or IBM Control Desk in IBM Process Mining we want to be able to access a DB2. Furthermore, I would expect all the tools within IBM to be easy to use with each other. So DB2 as a data source s...
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Possibility to configure own S3 storage

Current version support IBM S3, AWS S3 and Azure, but it isn't possible to own S3 storage, for example MinIO or Ceph RGW S3.It will be good if you add possibility to configure endpoint at AWS tab, then it will be possible to configure own S3 storage.
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

PostgreSQL Support for CMOD MP

PostgreSQL is a database very common in customers. Currently, many clients are using this database to replace Oracle databases due to costs.
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration