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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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Unrelate Quick Filter authorisation from Manage Filter authorisation

Currently, we can avoid a user from using filters in Dashboards in Process Mining by revoking the filtering permission. This is a nice to have feature, but totally restricts both the public filters managed with the "Manage Filters" option and the ...
8 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Planned for future release

Extend FNCM operator to support PodTemplate Injection/Customization

In OCP, allow injection of Annotations, Labels, Mutating webhooks, Custom injection operators. 1) Extend native OpenShift/Kubernetes capabilities for a content cortex deployments, example supporting additional mounted file systems 2) Create a side...
5 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Synchronization of Process Portal User Preferences and Attributes across Federated Environments

Provide a mechanism to automatically synchronize Process Portal user preferences and profile attributes from the federated Process Portal host to all participating federated workflow servers. Example, when there's a federated topology like this: A...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

FIPS 140-3 compliance for CMOD 10.5.0.8 and above.

The client has mandated that all software components be FIPS 140-3 compliant for CMOD version 10.5.0.8 and later. However, according to the IBM engineer, CMOD version 10.5.x supports FIPS 140-2 compliance only through GSKit and does not currently ...
4 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) Submitted

Enhance Process Diagram Visualization with Connector Color Customization and Rich Text Annotation Formatting

Blueworks Live provides effective process modeling capabilities; however, diagram readability can become challenging in large or complex process maps containing multiple alternate paths, escalation flows, integrations, and annotations. We propose ...
about 5 hours ago in Blueworks Live Submitted

Support Export and Import of Individual Artifacts in BAW

IBM BAW currently provides export/import capabilities at the Process Application and Toolkit level. However, there are many situations where developers only need to share or move a single artifact, such as: Client-Side Human Service (CSHS) Service...
about 21 hours ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

When opening the dashboard list via the Workplace app switcher, users cannot search, scroll, or view all available dashboards. Only a fixed, truncated list is shown with no indication that more exist.

When accessing the list of available dashboards via the app switcher (grid icon) in Workplace, it is not possible to search for a dashboard by name, nor to scroll through or confirm the full list of available dashboards. Only a limited, fixed numb...
about 22 hours ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Provide Object Store Mapping Support During Deployment of Promoted Legacy Case Solutions from Workflow Center to Connected Workflow Servers

IBM Business Automation Workflow supports deployment of promoted legacy Case solutions from Workflow Center to connected Workflow Servers. During deployment, users can choose whether to install the snapshot; however, there is currently no option t...
1 day ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Starts a new process instance from the specific nodes

In bamoe 8.x we have an API to start a process instance from specific node, this feature is not available in BAMOE 9.x Can you provide such feature in 9.x, we currently have applications that rely on that feature.

Add new scope to /glossary-values/{value-id}/usage API

Currently the glossary values API only returns usage in Active models - it does not include historical usages (e.g. in snapshots). When we try to clean up un-used glossary items, the first step is to identify those which were created by glossary i...
1 day ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release