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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 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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CP4BA - Import Process Mining KPIs

It would be great to have the import capability in the KPIs list. It is heavy duty when you want to reuse KPIs on another project and you have to create one by one. Maybe it is already a thing on the new release since I am using 2.0.3. Thanks in a...
3 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

How Process Center to list Process Apps and Toolkits marked as "FAVORITES" by default

When logging on to Process Center - the default listing of Process Apps and Toolkits are "ALL". If having many Process Apps or Tollkits this list becomes slow. Is there any way to configure Process Center to list Process Apps and Toolkits marked a...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Prevention of service flow call within context of inactive snapshot

Service flows on inactive snapshot could be unavaiable to call using REST interface. E.g. When URL-runnable human service X is using service Y (configured as "Allow calls from trusted callers"), the Y service is callable by REST using callerId of ...
17 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 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...
5 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

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

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

Jira Stories to BAW Code traceability

Dear IBM Team, I have a requirement to establish test case traceability from Stories to code via JIRA. I did check for any suitable documentation in the IBM Documentation website, but couldn't find any such information.
18 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Ability to have multiple NAS mounts and use more than one PV/PVC on a CPE container for file storage

We have multiple NAS mounts on one traditional WAS CPE server. We are in the process of upgrading to containers using the IBM FNCM Operator; however, there is a limitation to the CPE deployment where you can only have one PV/PVC assigned which mea...
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

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...
4 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Is a defect

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...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Under review