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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 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

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Ability to convert a Subprocess in to normal activities (part of the main diagram)

We have raised a request to Create sub processes by multi-selecting items shown in the process diagram, also vice versa , which is , convert a sub process in to normal activities ( which will become the part of the main diagram).
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

To have activity numbered in the Analyse and Playback mode

Currently we have the option to “Show Activity Numbering” in the process map which is not available in Analyse and Playback mode. The requirement is to freeze the activity number that is enabled in the process map for other functionality including...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Support for Map in CSHS

There is a need for "Map" object in a CSHS just like there is a need for "Map" in Service Flow. Even though there is "Map" for selection in "Variable type", there is no implementation for that variable type in CSHS. My proposed solution is to use ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

ICN's two transaction approach does exactly the opposite of "maximize performance" and causing large file upload large files (3gb and up) to fail with access_denied errors

ICN does creation of a document with content as two separate transactions, one in which an empty document is created and a second updating the document to add content and check it in. In that sequent the problem is that if the creator of the docum...
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

Provide REST API capability to create a BAW group

Customer needs the ability to create a BPM/BAW group, without being directly present on the server or requiring custom code.Currently a customer must be present in Process Admin Console's "Group Management" to create a group.The only API currently...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

add config option to remove or keep upload files from process portal instance details ui

add config option to remove or keep upload files from process portal instance details ui
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add REST APIs to retrieve all active task list of specific task including the task claimed by others and bulk assign some of them

The below requirement was asked by business from time to time in different projects. As a supervisor with allocation privileges, he / she want to view all the active tasks of specific user task including the available tasks and assigned (to self...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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

Get User to Group relation displayed

It is easy to get the information which users are members of a group but there is no direct display showing in which groups a user is member of. A similar implementation as used for Glossary items "where used" showing the group membership would be...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 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