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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:

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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,

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  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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REST API Constraint

Only GET Methods can be developed with Exposed Rest APIs (APIs opened from BPM to external systems). HTTP methods such as PUT, POST,DELETE should also be added here.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Restricting access to Process Instance data for Admin User

Dear Team, There is a requirement in our organization to restrict access of Process Instance data to only users involved in the process. From Process Inspector, an admin (tw_admin) user can view/edit the data of the any process instance by search...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Maximum number of starred Saved Sarches

We want an error message that appears on the Process Portal when a user tries to save a Saved Search as a favorite one, but he alreadey overpassed the maximum number available (limited by the max size of the user attribute). By the way, we are cur...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Provide user-defined highlighting for activities in model view

Currently highlighting activities is only possible for roles. It would be great to be able to select a column / field (including optional mapped fields) for which the highlighting should apply. Description of the feature select which column/field ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Possibility to download social net in svg format

We are missing the option to download the social net in svg (xml) format. Description of the feature The download should include the graphical representation of the social net and the legend. The download should reflect the current selection in th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

To be able to highlight all activities and add the task type in bulk rather than having to do this individually

This is time consuming having to add the task type to the activity individually, This would benefit all editors, this could work by using the marquee select function to highlight all activities needed.
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Custom length/range of horizontal axis of line chart widget in analytic tab

When using the line chart widget in the analytic tab, there are always blank spaces at the end of the chart. The useful part (lines) only occupies the one-third of the images. Can we set the length/range of the horizontal axis of the line chart to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

IBM Task Mining - Audit page - IBM Process Mining to include more Start/End date filter options.

Currently, users need to filter the start/end date for the task recording. In many scenarios, users must track the day they publish a Task from TM to PM. It would be interesting to add, on this page, the possibility of the Start and End date appli...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

IBM Task Mining - Task Classification wildcards improvement

Currently, the task classification process could be more straightforward. We suggest adding to the wildcards options of real business cases to streamline the process of Task Classification, like:1- Giving the user an easy option (shortcut) to grou...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release

Allow admin to globally prevent user amending their email and business unit

We use the Business Unit flag to allocate users costs to specific cost centres Currently, the user can edit that data at any time which breaks our cost allocation reporting Please can you add a admin option to make this data read only for the user...
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration