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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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

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

[Action Hub] Support for Creating a service integration with OAuth authetication method

Enable secure, standards-based connectivity by allowing users to create service integrations using OAuth 2.0 authentication. This feature streamlines third-party system connections, supports token-based authorization flows (e.g., authorization cod...
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Task Mining Agent to work with pop-ups

Currently, Task Mining supports modal recording but does not record browser dialogs (e.g., print preview). These dialogs are excluded because they cannot be linked to a URL and may display content outside the allowed website list, which is enforce...
9 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Cp4ba Product related feture request

In traditional IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW), administrators can monitor the health status of processes and services through the Process Monitor tab in the Process Admin Console for each jvm in cluster. This capability provides a centrali...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Glossary Bulk Delete Feature

Currently, there is no option to bulk delete a glossary item that is in use. If a glossary value is referenced across multiple process flows and activities. For example, used 100 times across 20 processes, the administrators must manually navigate...
about 2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Enhance Project Security Administration: Audit Timeline/Stream Entries and Add Immutable Closed Date Field for Change Activities

Business Justification / Use Case: Our organization relies on automated CI/CD pipelines, governance metrics, and integration scripts that sync with IBM ODM via REST APIs and java libraries. These automations rely heavily on timestamps (such as las...
18 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

[Action Hub] Support for rotative passwords using SMTP server

Enable secure email delivery by supporting rotative passwords for SMTP authentication stored into a Vault. Instead of relying on static credentials, the rely on Vault Server (Authorization) and get temporary passwords associated with a specific id...
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Seggregate data per role/user

We are working on a project that has data from a very large organization (300+ teams, 3.000+ people) which has a hierarchy and we would like to be able to seggregate the data that each person/group can see using 1 project. We would like to be able...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

IBM ODM Compatibility with AWS Bottlerocket Container OS

Support for running IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) using AWS Bottlerocket OS. This OS is required for security and hardening standards, and we would like IBM ODM to be certified/validated for this environment
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Needs more information

Restrict continuous scrolling across documents in Verify stage

In IBM Datacap Navigator (Verify stage), the image viewer allows continuous scrolling beyond the boundaries of the current document. When a user scrolls past the last page, it automatically loads the next document in the batch. This behavior leads...
4 months ago in Datacap 3 Not under consideration

Request to Enable OpenTelemetry (OTel) Events in CP4BA for Datadog APM Integration

Request for enable OTEL Events in Cp4ba: We would like to request support for enabling OpenTelemetry (OTel) events, traces, and metrics within IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA). Our organization uses Datadog APM as the enterprise-stand...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Not under consideration