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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 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

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 ...
18 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release

Migration path and documentation from CP4BA BAW 25 to BAW 26 on Container including both artifacts and runtime data.

Migration path and documentation for CP4BA BAW 25 to BAW 26 on Container including both artifacts and runtime data.
about 8 hours ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Enhance Project Security Administration: Audit Timeline/Stream Entries and Add Immutable Closed Date Field for Change Activities

Business Justification / Use Case: Our organization relies on automated CI/CD pipelines, governance metrics, and integration scripts that sync with IBM ODM via REST APIs and java libraries. These automations rely heavily on timestamps (such as las...
1 day ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

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...
15 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Shared component Library

Currently Activities and gateways can be reused in the shared component library. However, it is critical to add the functionality to allow sub activity objects to be reused. For example if I create an activity that has 10 sub activities, or a "chu...
6 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Parent Activity Inheritance

There should be a functionality that rolls up the data from the object beneath it. For example, if I have a milestone that has 10 activities underneath it and each of those activities are performed by a different system. Blueworks should automatic...
6 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Ability to select and edit multiple activities at once

There should be functionality that allows you to select multiple objects and edit the details behind them at the same time. Either multiple select activities, add details and it populates the details for all that were selected, or open multiple wi...
6 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Support for nested projects in Rule Designer

There are issues regarding nested projects with the following workspace layout: /workspace -> Eclipse/Rule Designer workspace /parent -> Parent project /ruleproject -> Main rule project When existing projects (parent) are imported from a ...
4 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

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 ...
14 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

We want a way to selectively synchronize only users, ODM role mappings, and Zen API keys between two existing Foundational Services environments.

there is no documented or supported procedure to selectively synchronize only users, ODM role mappings, and Zen API keys between two existing Foundational Services environments. This is what we need with a DR Environment and a production environme...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Needs more information