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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

Nested type mapping field support in fncm_* indices

Content cortex supports CBR only on String property definitions. If we use OpenSearch as indexing database, through Custom Text Indexing Preprocessor we can add virtual indexing fields but of only text type. But OpenSearch supports more mapping fi...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Submitted

Need more standard colors in the color legend

The current color legend functionality in IBM Blueworks Live presents several limitations that make it difficult to establish and maintain standardized color schemes. Limited color selection: Administrators cannot manually select a specific colo...
3 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Add mpMetrics-1.1 (MicroProfile Metrics) to FNCM Runtime Images to Enable OpenTelemetry JDBC Datasource Monitoring on Liberty

Customers running FNCM on IBM Liberty  are unable to monitor JDBC Datasource metrics via OpenTelemetry because the required Liberty feature mpMetrics-1.1 (MicroProfile Metrics 1.1) is not included in the FNCM container runtime images (CPE, Gr...
16 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Ability to redact JSON parameters in exceptions such as CWTBG0536E

When a JSON parsing exception occurs, it triggers error code CWTBG0536E and it logs the entire JSON body as plain-text in the logs. This can expose some information that some users may prefer be hidden.
about 11 hours ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

CCx AI Chat should allow chat across Object Stores of multiple CCx domains

With CCx AI Chat well perceived, multiple of my clients are eager to discover use cases.  We deployed FNCM/CCx essentials Standalone on Containers in 3 domains world wide (EMEA, US, APAC) to cover business units, and each of the domains is (o...
1 day ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

CCx AI Chat should be exposed through bookmark URL / allow embedding as component into custom web application

New AI Features in CCx resonate well with everyone I talk to. However, not all users however use IBM Content Navigator as their entry point, many use cases start with a business application (3rd party). CCx should exploit options to expose AI chat...
2 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

Allow Passing a payload when exiting/withdrawing a User Task (WS-Human Task Lifecycle)

We are using the WS-Human Task Lifecycle. When withdrawing a User Task using the exit operation, we would like to pass a payload containing additional business data/map values from that payload to the task output variable. The intention is for the...
2 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x 1 Not under consideration

User aware UI to support disability requirements

Our client has a diverse workforce that includes users with disabilities, such as visual impairments. When designing case pages and layouts in the BAW Case Client (ICN / Case Builder), designers currently have to cater to the lowest common denomin...
16 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Submitted

Support Multiple CSI Drivers in Cloud Pak for Business Automation (FileNet CPE)

We request support for multiple Container Storage Interface (CSI) drivers within a single Cloud Pak for Business Automation deployment, specifically for FileNet Content Platform Engine workloads running on Red Hat OpenShift. Currently, CP4BA deplo...
16 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 3 Submitted

Native High Availability and State Synchronization for Business Central Controllers

Business Central provides essential administrative capabilities for managing KIE Servers, including container deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management. However, in managed environments, KIE Servers depend on controller availability duri...
7 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Under review