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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).


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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:

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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,

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  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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Support Dynatrace in CP4BA 24.x

Dynatrace is the standard monitoring tool used across all teams at RBC. We have been leveraging it in previous version of CP4BA as well. There are many upstream calls made before our RuleApps are called in ODM and Dynatrace allows us to get a whol...
about 7 hours ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

IBM FileNet deployment in GCP cloud

Customer needs to use Google Cloud Platform as per business requirements.
about 11 hours ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Need access to property or an API which can return XU pool size/Thread pool being used on given runtime container at any given time.

Why is it Useful ?? By monitoring thread pool size and resource usage, you can identify the upcoming issues and optimize performance. This helps in ensuring that the system is neither underutilized nor overwhelmed. It allows for better management ...
1 day ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Accessing RuleApp property values from within java XOM

When defining a RuleApp deployment for a Decision Service in either Decision Center or Rule Designer, we can define 'RuleApp properties' key-value pairs. However, there does not appear to be a way to use the documented public API to access the pro...
1 day ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Rule execution server access control

We are looking for the admin privilege's for the monitoring group except ruleapp deployments.
2 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Update .Net to a more recent long term supported release (LTSR)

Our DataCap Custom Action Libraries cannot be written at a .Net version higher than 4.7.2 in order for DataCap to use them. Our product is currently targeting .Net 8. While some conponents are shareable across the two version using .Net standard, ...
2 days ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

In BPM, we need to have details of last login of a user and feature to enable or disable user if last login is greater than 30 days

It is useful to sort out only active users frequently using MDM. We need a feature to enable or disable an LDAP user based on last login of LDAP user in application. We also need a feature to delete the LDAP user from MDM application. This feature...
3 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Support inflight instance migration from BAW to CP4BA for Microsoft SQL Server

As per CP4BA v24.0.1 documentation, there is support for instance migration from BAW to CP4BA. However, this feature comes with a limitation that it is supported only for DB2 database. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0....
9 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Upgrade to MS SQL 2022 Compatibility Level to 2016 while on IBM P8 BAW 21.0.3.x before upgrading to BAW 24.0.x

Customers need to update their MS SQL Server environment to 2022 ASAP and request that they run it in SQL Server Compatibility Level 2016, which the customer is presently on (SQL Server 2016 SP2) before they upgrade to BAW 24.0.x on new hardware.
9 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Get Office Value Command - Retrieve Entire DataTable from Excel Files

The Get Office Value command currently lacks the capability to retrieve the entire datatable from an Excel file. This functionality is essential for workflows that require extracting and processing complete datasets from Excel. Without this capabi...
9 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted