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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

Request to Enable Datadog APM Integration for CP4BA Performance Monitoring

Request for integrate Cp4ba with Datadog APM tool: We would like to integrate the Datadog APM monitoring solution with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) to capture application performance metrics and transaction tracing. Since Datadog ...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Not under consideration

Datacap Navigator to have the ability to delete pages directly from the image viewer via keyboard delete/shortcut or an action in the viewer menu.

Allow the ability to delete pages directly from the image viewer (single and multi‑page), via keyboard Delete/shortcut or an action in the viewer menu. Current option only allow page to be deleted from the batch tree.
7 months ago in Datacap 2 Future consideration

Evaluate compatibility of FileNet CPE 5.6 and 5.7 with MySQL database.

I researched compatibility with FileNet CPE 5.6 and 5.7 using a MySQL database in IBM's documentation, but I couldn't determine if this is supported.
21 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Administration - Usage details (drop-down list)

In the Usage details (administration) tab, there should be a drop-down list for Number of processes, Number of events, Storage size, and Number of active task mining agents. This is the same option that is available for Number of active business u...
8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2 Future consideration

Need IBM to include AWS managed database services as supported software

We need IBM to include at least one of AWS managed database services as supported software. We are planning for installing CP4BA, WfPS/BAW on AWS Rosa, and we would like to use an AWS managed database for the WfPS/BAW databases. IBM should include...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Business Administrator - new administrative role

Business Administrator is a conceptual administrative role in IBM Process Mining, responsible for comprehensive management of the organizational structure and users within the environment, but without access to Tenant configuration and without the...
8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Process mining - possibility to download the model in jpg or png format (reference model superimposed on the actual model)

It should be possible to download the process model in jpg or png format (this refers to the process model in which the reference model is superimposed on the actual model)
8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2 Future consideration

IBM ODM 9.5 compatibility with Java 17

We would like to request IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) version 9.5 support and certified compatibility with Java 17 for ODM Embedded deployments. This is required for environments running on platforms such as AWS Glue, where Java 17 is cu...
22 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Customer wants to know the cost at a "per request" level as they intend to use this across multiple business units with separate billing structures, so one large bucket will be impossible to know actual cost per business unit.

Currently Datacap doesn't track the tokens used. As very basic requirement from a client.  They want to know how much tokens are used for their Datacap+ watsonx.ai calls.
22 days ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

Add a way to see which artifact where modified between two Snapshots

A client is collaborating with a larger team to migrate processes from their previous systems to BAW. As the amount of process to migrate is important, multiple developers are working in parallel, and also modifying the same toolkits/process apps ...
22 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted