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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 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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Write out the month (e.g. Jan, Feb, Mar...) when displaying the date

Display all dates as 13-May-2024 (instead of 13.05.2024) The month should be displayed in Chracters then as a number. Many other systems have this option, for example Jira, see example attached.
about 9 hours ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

Reset the overdue flag upon changing the custom data field without leaving and coming back to the same step

When the custom date field is updated to future date for overdue cases from BAW/Case Manager screen, the overdue flag should reset and recalculate the deadline, without moving the worktime from its current step.
7 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

GraphQL API parity issue. Need to allow more complex SQL queries

GraphQL API inner join query not returning all properties GraphQL Parity with Java API Problem Description Doing more complex SQL like a simple inner join query via the GraphQL API does not return information for properties that exist in the class...
7 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Ability/Flexibility to Modify/Delete Existing Case Properties

To improve flexibility and usability, it would be beneficial to enhance the product’s ability to add or modify case properties even after solution deployment. Allowing modifications to existing properties directly within the solution would provide...
13 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Change ephemeral storage usage to generic ephemeral volumes

The current usage of ephemeral storage (via {emptyDir} in deployment manifests can cause problems for bigger shared Openshift/Kubernetes environments, since the storage is allocated on the node storage, which can lead to pod eviction in case of un...
14 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Allow BAI updates through Intermedidate Tracking Event in Service Flows

We can currently using tracking groups to send telemetry to BAI in Business Process flows, but the same capability is not available in lower level service flows.
7 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide sorting function for properties

Currently it is not possible to change the order of the (custom) process properties. As custom fields might be added/removed over time it would be helpful to have a sorting/rearranging functionality so the property fields can be displayed in a mea...
6 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Enhance - Ability to have environment variables per baw server instance scoped

Possible environment variables baw server instance scoped instead of application-scoped, to allow for easier update of external services and others (endpoints, users, password, etc.) If the customer has more than 300 process apps which have a few ...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support for Tracability, OpenTelemetry and Instrumentation to be able to use tools like Jaeger,Kiali

There is need for tracing global transaction/request ID that starts with the platform UI and gets propagated to the various layers/components of CP4BA so that one can follow the transaction. Our clients are using OpenShift Service Mesh ( Istio ) a...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Not under consideration

Support for Service Mesh/ISTIO on OpenShift for CP4BA

Support for Service Mesh in CP4BA would be very helpful in enterprise installations. ISTIO is very popular and often this is a required by our clients. currently CP4BA does not support Service Mesh. This is helpful for: - mTLS (Mutual Transport La...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration