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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

All ideas

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Sailpoint integration to automate the access management

CP4BA is bundled with multiple products such FileNet Content Manager, Content Navigator, Business Automation Workflow, WebSphere,.etc. Sailpoint integration with CP4BA products will enable centralized access management, automate the access managem...
30 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Under review

Support full Kafka protocol for event - key and header support missing

Our BAMOE 8.0.5 deployment on OpenShift is integrated with an external Kafka cluster. In the processes that are running in our BAMOE instance, tasks shall be used to send and receive Kafka messages, containing a message value and a specific messag...
30 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Under review

AI Enhancements - BPMN guidance

Provide guidance on BPMN best practices in blueprints
15 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review

AI Enhancements - Evaluate process health and provide report (processes that have owners and do not have owners, last updated/stale, unpublished vs published maps)

AI Enhancements - Evaluate process health and provide reports (processes that have owners and do not have owners, last updated/stale, unpublished vs published maps)
15 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review

Provide a containerized image of Content Manager OnDemand

The page Building and deploying Content Manager OnDemand in a Docker container (ibm.com) explains how to set up, configure and run a standard version of CMOD in a Docker container. It would be more useful that IBM provides a cloud ready version of...
about 2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Under review

Excel Add-Ons will be loaded when using RPA command

Client is requesting that Excel Add-Ons be loaded when using the officeOpen RPA command by having an option to turn them one under the command settings. Add ons are currently not loaded with using the officeOpen RPA command.
3 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

JBoss EAP 8 support for BAMOE 8.0.x

As part of security vulnerability customer is planning to upgrade JBoss EAP from 7.4.14 to 8.0.2.1. They are running BAMOE 8.0.2 and request adding support for JBoss EAP 8.x in a future release.
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Under review

Add a timeout to "cancel" test suite execution that runs for too long

When you run a huge test suite, the execution can last for several mins, sometime more than 1h if you have put too much scenarios in it. The idea would be to allow for the user to set a specific timeout (testsuite_maxtime or something like that) a...
12 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Would like to have a multi-thread upload for large documents across filenet APIs using GRAPH QL.

Our business users would benefit from it because they sometimes have large documents to upload.
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Under review

Enable vulnerability scanning for CP4BA capabilities with WAS Automation platform

IBM WAS Automation is very effective to keep us ahead of the vulnerability scanning on IBM Websphere and apply fixpacks to fix those. it would be really great if all CP4BA capabilities such as P8, BAW etc. can be covered under the same platform fo...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review