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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 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

Delete events through the API

For IBM IPM products, most tasks are performed through the user interface. However, a REST API is available for certain functions. API documentation: IBM Process Mining REST API While it is possible to register and retrieve events through the API,...
3 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

Evaluate compatibility of FileNet CPE 5.6 and 5.7 with MySQL database.

I researched compatibility with FileNet CPE 5.6 and 5.7 using a MySQL database in IBM's documentation, but I couldn't determine if this is supported.
24 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Configuration option to default filter to "All Types" in Decision Center

I'm reaching out regarding the filter settings in Decision Center. Currently, the filter is persisted for each user, but there's no option to default it to "All Types" for all users or branches. Could you please consider adding a feature to allow ...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

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...
25 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

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.
25 days 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 ...
25 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

WFPS runtime/authoring - BPMN emitter without BAI?

Hi We are using WFPS runtime/authoring environments. We need BPMN events to flow to Kafka. From there we have a custom consumer which reads the events and we are not currently interested in the other features of BAI. We cannot configure events to ...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

FCM Operator creation of truststore ignores duplicate secret entries

It seems the FCM OPR will automatically try and combine all the secrets (LDAP, DB, FCM, etc...) and in this case all those secrets all point to the same truststore - with ALL certs in them, (i.e. they are already combined by the site...), in your ...
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

ProcessPortal Logged in users count for CP4BA Product

We can support better prod env based on how many users in system. in traditional BAW we used below query to see number of users logged/active in processportal. in cp4ba v25 this table do not have any entries. This table is empty. how to monitor ac...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Ability to change path to private .pem key file without uploading a new public one

Ability to update the path to the existing private .pem key file without requiring the upload or regeneration of a new public key. This provides greater flexibility for key management by allowing administrators to relocate or replace the private k...
27 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted