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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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[Action Hub] Support for Creating a service integration with OAuth authetication method

Enable secure, standards-based connectivity by allowing users to create service integrations using OAuth 2.0 authentication. This feature streamlines third-party system connections, supports token-based authorization flows (e.g., authorization cod...
7 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Submitted

[Action Hub] Support for rotative passwords using SMTP server

Enable secure email delivery by supporting rotative passwords for SMTP authentication stored into a Vault. Instead of relying on static credentials, the rely on Vault Server (Authorization) and get temporary passwords associated with a specific id...
7 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Submitted

Task mining - allowed applications and webpages (the ability to create and save a set)

When adding applications and websites (allowed list), there should be an option to save a given set of applications and websites (e.g., Set 1 = Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint). This solution is very important because with a larger number of user...
about 2 hours ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Submitted

Add a feature for Datacap to handle Kerberos failover without falling back to NTLM, ensuring authentication remains on Kerberos in cross‑forest setups.

In distributed enterprise environments with cross‑forest domain trusts, Datacap currently connects to servers in different domains through IP, which indicates it is using NTLM authentication. NTLM is less secure and often restricted by organizatio...
about 6 hours ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

Add support for AWS Cognito for Business Automation Workflow (BAW) on Containers (not CP4BA).

We are an IBM partner, and our long-term IBM Case Management Federal customer is migrating from IBM Case Manager, users in AWS Managed Microsoft AD service, on a Linux environment to Containers on AWS. The customer does not need the full BAW capab...
2 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Rediscover option for external services

If an external service is created based on the discovery of a Java, REST, or Web Service, a rediscover button is essential. This button would enable the updating of the methods associated with that service or defined object structure without the n...
15 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Submitted

Automate the cleanup of the console and messages logs created under the podname directories

Logs are created in /opt/ibm/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/logs for each pod. As pods are shutdown and restarted during kubernetes maintenance or other work, additional log directories are created, leaving the old directories in place. This requir...
6 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Business Administrator - new administrative role

Business Administrator is a conceptual administrative role in IBM Process Mining, responsible for comprehensive management of the organizational structure and users within the environment, but without access to Tenant configuration and without the...
13 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Use Azure Blob Immutable storage as a Fixed Content Device

Azure Blob storage is not listed as a Fixed Content Device in the Document Storage technote for FileNet Content Manager and IBM Content Foundation. ASA does not support immutable storage, so a CPE retention policy must be set up to match the Azure...
3 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Prevention of service flow call within context of inactive snapshot

Service flows on inactive snapshot could be unavaiable to call using REST interface. E.g. When URL-runnable human service X is using service Y (configured as "Allow calls from trusted callers"), the Y service is callable by REST using callerId of ...
3 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted