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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

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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...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Need a cron job for cleaning up old cache directories

Today, ICN uses a PVC named icn-vw-cachestore to storage cached files. Each pod, when it comes up, creates a subdirectory named after itself for its own cached files. If the pods gets bounced for any reason, the pod that replaces it will create it...
4 months ago in Content Navigator 1 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...
2 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
3 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...
8 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...
about 1 month ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Provide an option so IBM License Service does not create the CR

We’d like a change to the license operator logic to check if a cr was provided and throw an error if one is not present and if one is present parse it and attempt to use it. Or create a new OPR flag to ONLY dump a template cr IF a site asks it to....
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

FileNet Content Manager domain option to remove "Key Management" configuration

As part of Proof-of-concept implementation, we enabled 'KMIP' configuration under P8 Domain > Key Management and successfully tested it in Non-Production environment. With complexity of the configuration and operational challenges, we plan to u...
9 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

FileNet Content Manager on Containers should allow tracking infrequent users

FNCM terms provide the concept of Infrequent Users, stating "Licensee must track accesses by Infrequent Users to verify that they meet the access limitations of Infrequent Users." In traditional environments, ILMTCollector/ILMTReporter are a means...
9 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

API endpoint to list executed bots

IBM RPA uses API endpoints to call Bots outside of Control Center context, like an external application. Customer suggested having an API endpoint to check for the history of bot executions to understand whether an instance has been executed or no...
11 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted