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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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Provide a new tool for Building, Creating and maintaining the Custom Query table

We have several BPEL Processes in which we implemented the standard functionality of the query tables. We always used the procedure described in the documentation of the IBM Business Automation Workflow and before for BPM and WPS: Creating query t...
4 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Submitted

For Document Explorer: Allow a developer to filter which document classes, display name and properties appear when a user clicks add document. Much like using an Entry Template with FileNet and Content Navigator

Allows for better customization for case solutions and only presents the information necessary for the case type being worked.
4 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Table rows mapping into CPE String property template.

it will benefit lot of customers who want to parse the table rows into BAW/FileNet CPE document meta data (property). currently no such table rows mapping into CPE object store.
1 day ago in Automation Document Processing 0 Submitted

IBM Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) - LDAP Sync - ARS1221I Group Member Addition

Preview will not output the group member addition in certain scenarios, but the actual sync will assign group membership correctly. One example shown below. The group CMOD_Users does not exist in CMOD and user001 and user002 are members of CMOD_Us...
1 day ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

Enhance new governance functionality

The new governance functionality is a great new feature that we were missing since we introduced BWL in our company. Nevertheless there are still some limitations that are holding us back from activating it. Current limitations: When activating th...
11 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 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...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Provide option for viewers to only display properties containing a value

Current limitation: When a viewer displays a process documentation and selects "Show All Details" all property fields are being displayed no matter if they contain a value or not. This is negatively impacting the overview and is not consistent wit...
11 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

The ICN stored search displays the Boolean operators between the groups and the individual criteria only in edit mode. It should be visible both Edit mode and while opening normal stored search.

The issue is that, when you create a search that has property groups, as long as the search is in Edit mode by the creator/owner of the search the Boolean operators within the group and between the group and the individual criteria are visible. Bu...
25 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Gitops approach for installation/upgrades using ArgoCD

Customers like Swiss Federal Office for Information and Telecomunication are using exclusively gitops approach to install and upgrade containerized applications on Openshift.CP4BA and its underlaying CPFS are relying on scripts which are doing a b...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Submitted