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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

Workflow Solutions Catalogue: Approved Once, Deployed Anywhere

Government Agencies frequently need to implement case workflow solutions to address specific business problems, but each new solution requires significant time and effort to design, build, and approve from scratch. This idea proposes a Workflow So...
5 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 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...
28 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Provide a way to build and deploy DE ruleset that do not include data.io and data.ie  packages

It should work for DC/RD/Build Command.  The property would be used when the deployment configuration is a production and it not for testing and simulation.
about 2 hours ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Add the Ability to find artifacts with no reference in a Process APP

As developers we need a way to find all Business Objects , Services,Coach Views, toolkit, files and processes that not referenced from other artifacts delete it and make the process app clean
about 2 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Adding the ability to define Input and output variables at the same step

To avoid mismatch or wrongly typed variables with the same name for input and output we need the function of definition of variables to be the same as when we use the automatic mapping of services which show a popup and allow the user to select wh...
about 2 hours ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Adding the Ability to export a BAW Process App snap shot for a Traditional Environment

Our Customer needs to have the ability to export the Process App snap shot from CP4BA BAStudio or Rest API Swagger and install it on Traditional Environment without any External tools or changing the Configuration files within the snap shot . so w...
about 2 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Nested type mapping field support in fncm_* indices

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

WfPS should support independent JMS Server

By default, workflow runtimes in CP4BA embed JMS on the first available pod. While this is a simplification in the architecture chart and easier to manage in a single-runtime deployment, this does not scale well, requiring all servers of the clust...
3 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Ability to identify the user who executed a specific bot through Launcher via Audit Log

Currently, the Audit Log records Launcher execution events but does not provide sufficient information to determine which specific bot was executed by a given user. In environments where a Launcher is associated with multiple bots, the audit data ...
6 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

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...
27 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Submitted