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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.


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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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Disable automatic link generation in Blueworks Live processes

The customer (Blueworks Live user) has requested that the automatic creation of hyperlinks between process steps should be turned off.Currently, when a step is added or edited, Blueworks Live automatically generates a clickable link to that step i...
13 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Decouple BAW and CPE due to licensing issue

Currently, it is not possible that Process Portal to be used (without repository - CPE) in a CP4BA environment, as it is tightly coupled currently. The operator configures CPE URL, its credentials, its connection information as part of the BAW pod...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Rule Designer 8.12.0 does not accept three-level Base Version such as 2.79.1

Please see details in Case TS021272402.
18 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Add Polish language support to IBM Process Mining to improve accessibility for Polish-speaking users

Polish language support in IBM Process Mining will help public sector organizations work more efficiently by removing language barriers. It should include UI localization: Translate menus, messages, and help content. Documentation: Guides and tuto...
3 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

Make font and line color of linked processes/message events hypertext color (blue: active / purple: visited)

Viewers may not understand the functionalities of Blueworks Live, but keeping with web standards for hypertext links are generally blue/underlined or purple/underlined for visited links. Changing the fill color defeats the purpose of color-coding ...
13 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Make BAMOE Developer Tools VS code extension open source

The new version of the IBM BAMOE Developer Tools for VS Code is a great improvement over the classic editor, but it still has several bugs, problems, and known limitations that need to be addressed. This is generally true for the classic editor as...
13 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Not under consideration

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

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

Task mining - the ability to classify several tasks at once

Task mining - the ability to classify several tasks at once At the Task Classification stage, after filtering out specific applications, it should be possible to classify several tasks at the same time within specific applications. This solution g...
6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration