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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

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Get BAI to be more flexible in the naming settings

Context and Requirements Our organization has a convention of exposing all external services on the bdapps.* domain rather than apps.*. On our namespaces, we add the label type=bdapps, which causes the “bdapps” router to be used instead of the def...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Rediscover option for external services

If an external service is created based on the discovery of a Java, REST, or Web Service, a rediscover button is essential. This button would enable the updating of the methods associated with that service or defined object structure without the n...
28 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Submitted

Datacap Navigator to have the ability to delete pages directly from the image viewer via keyboard delete/shortcut or an action in the viewer menu.

Allow the ability to delete pages directly from the image viewer (single and multi‑page), via keyboard Delete/shortcut or an action in the viewer menu. Current option only allow page to be deleted from the batch tree.
13 days ago in Datacap 2 Submitted

Datacap Scan & Verify panel to display image in dual window and to allow thumbnail and image viewer to be separated

Allow dual window to have a separate dialogue box or viewer. One for the image viewer and one for the thumbnail viewer.
13 days ago in Datacap 1 Submitted

FCM Operator creation of truststore ignores duplicate secret entries

It seems the FCM OPR will automatically try and combine all the secrets (LDAP, DB, FCM, etc...) and in this case all those secrets all point to the same truststore - with ALL certs in them, (i.e. they are already combined by the site...), in your ...
about 1 month ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

To extend the current indent guide line and/or to change font size in designer mode to increase the number of lines included.

In complex automations developed in IBM Robotic Process Automation Designer, workflows often contain multiple nested conditions, loops, and exception-handling blocks that are currently displayed at the same visual level. This makes large scripts d...
9 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

CPE: Remove relationship when deleting a child compound document

The original design documentation for the compound documents feature clearly state that when using Dynamic relationships, in some cases the relationship can point at nothing if there isn’t a version which satisfies the binding rule. Furthermore, w...
4 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Additional setting within the audit definition to capture LDAP user access during content retrieval.

Additional setting within the audit definition to capture LDAP user access during content retrieval. It could enhance traceability and compliance for sensitive document access
4 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Need to support http for PE server for containers

Right now, this is supported for Websphere/Weblogic only: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/filenet-p8-platform/5.6.0?topic=how-pe-pe-https-workflow-transfer-configuration-changes Want this support for containers as well. I.e. I have to use a custom net...
9 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Reduce or accelerate the reconciliation cycle for implementing changes in CP4BA

Detailed Description: Currently, in Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA), whenever changes are made to component configurations, it is necessary to wait for the reconciliation cycle to run automatically for the adjustments to take effect. Thi...
3 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted