Digital Business Automation Ideas


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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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Ability to add a Comment to the Rule Artifact in the "DO" of a Query

Currently we can add Documentation to Rule Artifacts in the DO part of a Query. But we cannot add comment to that artifact.However this comment section is more adapted to audit than the documentation.
about 8 hours ago in Operational Decision Manager Submitted

Enterprise requires the use of organization-approved, custom CA‑signed certificates. Add support in the CP4BA Operator to allow customers to configure custom signed leaf certificates for the OpenSearch route, without requiring the creation of a custom Issuer. 

When running CP4BA in a public cloud environment need to securely connect from on‑premises systems to OpenSearch. Many enterprises require the use of organization-approved, custom CA‑signed certificates to meet internal security and compliance sta...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

configure a Credentials Manager using a Web Identity Provider in FileNet Content Platform Engine 5.7 to avoid managing and rotating static HMAC access keys for our Advanced Storage Areas. Our FileNet deployment runs in a GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) cluster on Google Cloud Platform.

We are planning to configure a Credentials Manager using a Web Identity Provider in FileNet Content Platform Engine 5.7 to avoid managing and rotating static HMAC access keys for our Advanced Storage Areas. Our FileNet deployment runs in a GKE (Go...
10 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Workflow layout Formatting.

Before BAMOE V9.X, we used Business Central feature of RHPAM to design the workflows. Now when we try to import the BPMN2 files that were developed using RHPAM into VSCode with BAMOE V9.X extenstion, the layout of the workflows is not being in the...
about 3 hours ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Submitted

Prevention of Concurrent Sessions for the Same User Account in IBM RPA Control Center

Currently, IBM RPA Control Center allows the same user account to be logged in simultaneously from multiple browsers, multiple computers, or multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) without terminating the older session. We request an enhancement to introd...
about 15 hours ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

AD LDS support

for BAW deployment it seems that Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service is not officially supported while AD DS is. We need support also for AD LDS for installing BAW in italian police ai project.
about 22 hours ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Enhancement Request: Datacap Support Microsoft Graph App-Only Authentication for Office 365 Email Ingestion Using Client Secret or Certificate-Based Credentials

Customer security teams are increasingly restricting or prohibiting username and password-based authentication for application integrations. Many organizations now require vendors to support modern Microsoft Entra ID authentication patterns, inclu...
1 day ago in Datacap Submitted

CMOD REST - Adjust HTTP Status Codes on server error

Right now, it appears that if CMOD REST encounters a server-side failure with the CMOD System, the REST API returns a 400 BAD_REQUEST response. However, a CMOD server-side failure should be categorized as a server error (5xx), not a client error (...
1 day ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) Submitted

WTM does not have the ability to set ScanSrcPath attribute in the dco when an upload is called

When using Datacap + wTM service Queue/UploadFile API, in the xml output, original Filename is not present. However, Below attribute is available in OOTB vscan.xml when we ingest a file from Datacap studio. <V n="ScanSrcPath">C:\Datacap\Spli...
3 days ago in Datacap Submitted

Alternative way for solving CVE-2023-50959 in BAW.

In the context of CVE-2023-50959 which is solved by KI DT247523, we have a complex situation that cannot be solved with the two ECM services : ECM Document Authorization Service ECM Query Authorization Service Our security scan suggested to avoid ...
4 days ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

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