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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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ODM Standalone Operator

We currently utilise the Helm chart installation of ODM but would prefer a standalone operator to be made available. Support provided option with CP4BA, but we would like something else avoids unnecessary dependence on Cloud Pak Foundational Servi...
3 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

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. ...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Under review

Support for Mutual SSL (Client certificates authenticating) for connecting to z/OS server.

In our organisation the use of passwords for Non Personal Accounts is being discontinued. The directive is to use authentication with client certificates. (a.k.a. Mutual SSL) DB2 for z/OS is supporting this type of authentication but Content Manag...
10 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

Option to disable Warnings for empty conditions on DT during deployment

During deployment, lots of warnings are displayed on deployment report: There is a warning "col: 4, line: 1: The Otherwise condition inverses a large number of conditions. Performance might be impacted." Which is expected if there are more than 50...
15 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

BAW(Business Automation Workflow) or PFS(Process Federation Server) Search API to FDR, group getIndexedFieldsFromSearchInName multiple GET calls into 1 call

With external Elastic Search, the calls to perform getIndexedFieldsFromSearchInName happens individually on every 'Field' to check every 'Field' referenced in a search do exist in Elasticsearch. This slows down the search performance with External...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Under review

Support for MongoDB

Currently BAMOE 9 does not support non-SQL db such as Mongo DB, and wondering if we can have support for this
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Under review

Support for POSTGRESQL

We currently deploy CMOD on AIX and do not have the ability to use POSTGRESQL as database. POSTGRESQL is our db of choice moving forward.
about 2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

Add command to switch iframes for web automations with IBM RPA

Many webpages and especially ones which are being used to download various reports based on filters etc, but in general more robust pages, now usually include more then 1,2 iframes. It would be 100% flexibility and efficiency improvement if there ...
9 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

We want to be able to choose format for dates in exporting decision table to Excel.

in IBM ODM Decision Center 9.5, whenever we export a decision table to XLSX, dates are written in the format M/D/Y H:MM:SS AM/PM. Is there a possibility to change the format to Y-M-D HH:MM:SS. Example: Instead of 08/31/2025 03:00:00 PM, we would l...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

Disabling PVC checks in Workflow-operator

IBM Team, Workflow operator pod (which I believe unlike the content-operator) automatically checks for the PVC size, and If any configuration added under baw_configuration section it won't be picked up because of the following error: "PersistentVo...
29 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Under review