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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 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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How Process Center to list Process Apps and Toolkits marked as "FAVORITES" by default

When logging on to Process Center - the default listing of Process Apps and Toolkits are "ALL". If having many Process Apps or Tollkits this list becomes slow. Is there any way to configure Process Center to list Process Apps and Toolkits marked a...
5 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Button to remove all variables with 0 reference

After finishing more robust developments it would be nice to have a button which would automatically delete all variables which in the final status of development have 0 references. Now we have to scroll through the variables panel and remove one ...
13 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Submitted

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...
24 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Enable Support for Secrets Store CSI for FNCM Standalone CNCF

To ensure feature parity with other DBA products (ODM on CNCF - existing; CP4BA - considered), the option to integrate FileNet Content Manager with external secrets stores that support Secret Store CSI Driver for additional security is important. ...
24 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Administration - additional informations

Administration - additional informations Detailed information, usage metrics, or platform usage statistics.The ability to transfer information via Rest API about the use of platform resources so that it is possible to combine information and measu...
3 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Submitted

Administration - usage details (update)

Separate the Usage details area from the Administration area so that users are aware of how many projects they can create. Justification: Administrators do not need to report to users on the number of projects created.
3 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Submitted

Support Request: OpenShift 4.20, JBoss EAP 8, Spring Boot 3.x/4.x, and OpenJDK 17/21 for BAMOE 8.0.7

BAMOE 8.0.7 currently supports the following software versions, but their end-of-support dates have already passed or are approaching:https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity-reports/report/html/softwareReqsForProduct?deliverable...
4 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Future consideration

Decouple BAW and CPE due to licensing issue

Currently, it is not possible that Process Portal to be used (without repository - CPE) in a CP4BA environment, as it is tightly coupled currently. The operator configures CPE URL, its credentials, its connection information as part of the BAW pod...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Ansible module to deploy CP4BA

We have been deploying Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) using the cert-kubernetes package via the cp4a-deployment.sh script. Since certain organizations recommend deploying software using Ansible, we would like to submit this idea for cre...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 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...
11 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted