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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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Management Console to provide roles and proper user segregation based on oidc authentication

Currently management console doesn't provide any roles. Any user once having access to management console can perform any action as there are no roles like in business central. Without proper role segregation and access management its not quite a ...
9 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 1 Planned for future release

Create Process Diagrams with AI

It would be a 'game changer' if users are able to auto create BPMN process diagrams in Blueworks by simply attaching process documentation, which details process steps end-to-end. Either through custom or default prompts, it would be highly benefi...
24 days ago in Blueworks Live 2 Planned for future release

Request for a data normalization mechanism between BAMOE 8.x InstanceView models and BAMOE 9.x Event POJOs

Some clients rely on custom implementations of ElasticSearchEventEmitter in BAMOE 8.x to synchronize process and task data (ProcessInstanceView, TaskInstanceView, TaskOperationView) directly with Elasticsearch. This approach ensures transactional ...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 2 Planned for future release

Simulation job parameter to show the date in the format set on DC locale - currently only showing date format in US

Users need to be able to set the locale for the dates used in the JobParameter. As See below extract from Sample <scenarioSuiteFormat locale="EN" name="loanvalidation.random.multi-thread.format" version="1.0" xmlns="http://schemas.ibm.com/rules...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Planned for future release

Support of Mysql 8.4

The banking sector client has contacted us, stating that MySQL 8.0.22 will reach EOL by September 2025, and they wish to upgrade to MySQL 8.4, including PAM.
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Planned for future release

Integrating Okta with CP4BA using SCIM should be supported in case management

There is a known limitation in CP4BA that management case solutions and applications are not supported when integrating with OKTA using SCIM. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0.0?topic=notes-known-limitations#concept_gmf...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

Dedicated IBM namespace for SAP Add-On

Initial Situation The customer is currently using an on-premise SAP S/4 HANA system, in which several third-party add-ons are installed. The objects of these add-ons are stored in the respective vendor-specific namespaces. Additionally, there are ...
3 months ago in Content Collector for SAP 0 Planned for future release

Support to export detailed PDF documentation for any DMN

Some people who do not come from tech background may find DMN 1.5 little bit technical. We need a way to export/share the DMN (including decision tables) in the form of PDF document. Something, that was present in the previous classic editors (aut...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Planned for future release

Undo from Accidental Deletion - does not exist.

Current pain point that is super frustrating. Accidently key press that deletes an entire structure and there is NO WAY to undo that within the Discovery Map Tree Structure. When you accidently blow away a structure - there appears to be no way to...
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Add an option in the CM Web Admin Plugin to properly set TRACELEVEL to -15 for support traces

There's currently no easy way to set the TRACELEVEL value to -15, which is often requested by L2, for the library server trace. The admin desktop client has this feature, but not the web admin plugin. It could be useful to have a "Support Trace" o...
4 months ago in Content Manager (CM8) 0 Planned for future release