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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,

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 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...

All ideas

Shared component Library

Currently Activities and gateways can be reused in the shared component library. However, it is critical to add the functionality to allow sub activity objects to be reused. For example if I create an activity that has 10 sub activities, or a "chu...
1 day ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Parent Activity Inheritance

There should be a functionality that rolls up the data from the object beneath it. For example, if I have a milestone that has 10 activities underneath it and each of those activities are performed by a different system. Blueworks should automatic...
1 day ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Ability to select and edit multiple activities at once

There should be functionality that allows you to select multiple objects and edit the details behind them at the same time. Either multiple select activities, add details and it populates the details for all that were selected, or open multiple wi...
1 day ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Unrelate Quick Filter authorisation from Manage Filter authorisation

Currently, we can avoid a user from using filters in Dashboards in Process Mining by revoking the filtering permission. This is a nice to have feature, but totally restricts both the public filters managed with the "Manage Filters" option and the ...
13 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release

Extend FNCM operator to support PodTemplate Injection/Customization

In OCP, allow injection of Annotations, Labels, Mutating webhooks, Custom injection operators. 1) Extend native OpenShift/Kubernetes capabilities for a content cortex deployments, example supporting additional mounted file systems 2) Create a side...
10 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

IBM ODM 9.5 compatibility with Java 17

We would like to request IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) version 9.5 support and certified compatibility with Java 17 for ODM Embedded deployments. This is required for environments running on platforms such as AWS Glue, where Java 17 is cu...
about 8 hours ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Customer wants to know the cost at a "per request" level as they intend to use this across multiple business units with separate billing structures, so one large bucket will be impossible to know actual cost per business unit.

Currently Datacap doesn't track the tokens used. As very basic requirement from a client.  They want to know how much tokens are used for their Datacap+ watsonx.ai calls.
about 8 hours ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

Add a way to see which artifact where modified between two Snapshots

A client is collaborating with a larger team to migrate processes from their previous systems to BAW. As the amount of process to migrate is important, multiple developers are working in parallel, and also modifying the same toolkits/process apps ...
about 14 hours ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

IBM Content Collector FIPS 140-3 Compliance

  Good Afternoon, The client has mandated that all software products and their associated components be compliant with FIPS 140-3 standards. Support case TS022799550 was previously opened to determine whether ICC is FIPS 140-3 compliant. Base...
1 day ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

FIPS 140-3 compliance for CMOD 10.5.0.8 and above.

The client has mandated that all software components be FIPS 140-3 compliant for CMOD version 10.5.0.8 and later. However, according to the IBM engineer, CMOD version 10.5.x supports FIPS 140-2 compliance only through GSKit and does not currently ...
9 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted