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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,

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 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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Ability to Define a Default Workplace Task List View with Custom Columns for All Users

In IBM BAW Workplace https://x.x.x.x:xxxx/Workplace, custom business data properties (for example: Branch, Approval Decision, Account Number) can be exposed as task properties and added as columns in the Tasks view. While these custom columns work...
20 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Improve the Get Next functionality

Scenario 1: 1. Case1 from default sorting order is opened by user in tab/browser1 leave it without processing 2. Case 2 is open in tab/browser2 and completed Expected is, Case3 (Based on sorting priority. This can next case in queue or any new cas...
20 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Support for Tracability, OpenTelemetry and Instrumentation to be able to use tools like Jaeger,Kiali

There is need for tracing global transaction/request ID that starts with the platform UI and gets propagated to the various layers/components of CP4BA so that one can follow the transaction. Our clients are using OpenShift Service Mesh ( Istio ) a...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Not under consideration

Support for Service Mesh/ISTIO on OpenShift for CP4BA

Support for Service Mesh in CP4BA would be very helpful in enterprise installations. ISTIO is very popular and often this is a required by our clients. currently CP4BA does not support Service Mesh. This is helpful for: - mTLS (Mutual Transport La...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Process mining - the ability to read data from GCP Cloud

Process Mining - the ability to read data from the GCP Cloud "Create schedule source retrieval from cloud storage" options, the ability to read data from the GCP Cloud Storage should be added. The GCP Cloud Storage is used by the organization for ...
6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

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

Administration - additional informations

Administration - additional informations Detailed information, usage metrics, or platform usage statistics.The ability to transfer information via Rest API about the use of platform resources so that it is possible to combine information and measu...
2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

Administration - usage details (update)

Separate the Usage details area from the Administration area so that users are aware of how many projects they can create. Justification: Administrators do not need to report to users on the number of projects created.
2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Process mining - exclude weekends option

Process mining - exclude weekends option Adding "exclude weekends" in the data cleansing tab. Example use: After mapping the data it should be possible to not counting processing time during weekends (because people don't work during weekends) An ...
8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Process mining - additional suggestions (guidelines) for errors

Adding hints to help resolve a given error Adding, in the form of a comment or an additional box, information on how to solve the error (e.g. No such column "eventlog.endtime_ts"), such as providing the exact path to the tab, step or file where yo...
8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration