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 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...
Share feedback 8
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
Share feedback 0

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    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

    Enable native support for arrays of arrays (nested arrays) within IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) Business Objects.

    This enhancement would allow BAW's JSON Data Handler to directly process and bind JSON arrays containing other arrays (e.g., "productList": [ [ {...}, {...} ], [ {...} ] ]) to corresponding Business Object structures. It is useful because it elimi...
    15 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Process mining - project archiving capability

    Process mining - project archiving capability In the projects/backups tab, it should be possible to generate a file for a given project for archiving purposes. The project file should include the remaining options (insight and actions, model setti...
    3 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

    Task mining - task classification - additional filter (filter by task)

    Task mining - task classification - additional filter (filter by task) At the Task Classification stage, it should be possible to “filter by task,” as is the case with applications (“filter by application”) and pages (“filter by page”). This is ve...
    3 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

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

    Positioning of boundary events and flow paths on collapsed/expanded sub-processes

    When adding a boundary event to a sub-process, when you expand the sub-process the flow paths from the boundary events do not originate at the actual boundary events and instead sometimes appear center bottom of the expanded sub-process. This make...
    3 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Needs more information

    Preserving sequence of toolkits when importing process apps

    One of the steps during the migration is exporting all the process applications from existing process center on IPas (Workflow Center on Traditional WAS) and importing them into a new / empty process center on container / OpenShift platform (CP4BA...
    7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Revert input/output variable mapping to classic view to remove extra steps

    Users are facing challenges with BAW 23.0.1's new variable mapping process, finding it cumbersome due to extra clicks and complexity, especially in complex projects. The classic mapping offered quicker, more straightforward access to variable usag...
    almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 7 Planned for future release

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