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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

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Process Mining - What If - Your to-be scenario - automatic process overview update

Your to-be scenario - automatic process overview update At the level of Your-to-be scenario making changes in the Process evolutions and Configuration tabs and applying the Simulate action, the process overview is not updated. The same problem is ...
5 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Set default document class to “My Custom Document Class Name” when adding new documents in IBM Content Navigator / BAW

In IBM Content Navigator (ICN) or BAW, when users add a new document, the default document class is currently set to “Document”. For our client, most new documents should belong to the “My Custom Document Class Name” class, but users must manually...
28 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

Improve search filter usability in IBM Content Navigator: Display static text when only one option (e.g. “Include all”) is available

When creating a search in IBM Content Navigator (ICN), under the property options configuration, users can define the filter options — for example, selecting Include all as the only valid option. However, when the search is created, the filter dro...
28 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

Tooltips remain visible and block interface components during native UI configuration in ICN

When using a native user interface within IBM Content Navigator, tooltips that appear and sometimes remain visible and do not disappear as expected. We want, through configuration, in Content Search, to hide the tooltips of a predefined multi-choi...
28 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

Task mining - additional information about time spent (applications and webpages not included in the list)

In the Dashboard tab, after displaying information about Agent interaction, information should also be provided about the time spent in applications and pages not included in the list.
3 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

Simulation job parameter to show the date in the format set on DC locale - currently only showing date format in US

Users need to be able to set the locale for the dates used in the JobParameter. As See below extract from Sample <scenarioSuiteFormat locale="EN" name="loanvalidation.random.multi-thread.format" version="1.0" xmlns="http://schemas.ibm.com/rules...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Planned for future release

CP4BA form factors should only install those operators required by selected capabilities

When installing any pattern of Cloud Pak, the deployment installs all operators, including those that explicitly cover functionalities not required by the selected capabilities. Similarly, when installing standalone versions of DBA products that r...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Adding mail attribute of LDAP in LSW_USR_XREF table

Why is it useful? We are currently working on workflow implementation for Qatar’s largest bank, which has more than 475 processes running in the production environment and a substantial number of new instances being created daily. The daily task v...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Submitted

Rule Model Extension Properties no longer show asterisks for mandatory properties

Business console in ver 9.x no longer showing mandatory attributes when authoring business rules. This issue relates to properties that have required=”true” as their attribute. The mandatory attributes were clearly displayed in the old enterprise ...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Is a defect

CP4BA should allow script-free updates (IFIX) to allow for automation using ArgoCD e.a.

We manage environments using ArgoCD in order to automate steps to reduce effort and risk of updates. Until CP4BA 22.0.2 , IFIX installations were done by manually applying YAML files, which was easily ported into GitOps automation for ArtgoCD.In C...
15 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted