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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 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

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ICN Bookmark URL based search support for full text search (CSS) and search property hiding

We plan to integrate IBM Content Navigator (with FileNet Content Manager repository) into a business application through ICN bookmark URLs, according to the broader strategy to access and update in the context of business processes. Two important ...
about 2 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

SSO support for OIDC in Edit Services for Cloud Pak for Business Automation

Actually Edit services does not support SAML SSO authentication, requiring users already authenticated in Navigator to repeat the authentication when editing documents and when authentication and authorization are separated, this may introduce fur...
2 months ago in Content Navigator 2 Planned for future release

Extract report from playback feature

Is there any way we can extract the process from playback feature in blueworks in multiple forms like pdf, excel etc along with word doc which is already existing.
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Can we add Risk name and description in metadata along with its severity which is already an existing feature

If we can include risk name and description in metadata then every time we extract the process and activity from bluworks it would be readily available for analysis of process improvement. It can help the analyst to have all the required informati...
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Using yaml to configure foundational services

The client would like to do the configuration of foundational services with ldap groups and Active Directory, that currently needs to be done via the UI. this is for CP4BA and CP4I They would like to have this defined in a declarative way, so they...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Under review

PFS able to federate multiple cells in different namespaces on the same cluster.

It is needed for PFS on Cloud Pak for Business Automation to be able to federate cells on-premise/traditional BAW and also other cells in different namespaces on the same cluster where PFS is instantiated. This has already been discussed with Seba...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

allow export of application group to exclude export of applications

we try to keep our environments clean and only contain objects that are needed in that specific environment. We we like a check box on the application group export function that would allow us to turn off export of applications to the destination ...
2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Provide a Virtual Instance Configurable Limit on Number of Concurrent Sweeps Allowed

We have observed, within a site that if multiple sweeps are running and restarts of JVMs happen during sweep processing, all running sweeps can potentially realign to the first active JVM post restart and therefore overload the JVM/Server. In case...
2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Screen repository

Create a repository in order to save the elements retrieved by recorder with the relative image preview. When I have to automate a new use case with the same application, instead of capture a new element, I can get it from the repository and use i...
2 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

SAP Start Session command to support SSO Login

Some of our customers have SSO Login configured in their SAP Application. Basically, the goal here is the command SAP Start Session command supports the SSO Login to SAP, so all the other SAP commands can still use that Session (i.e. Attach SAP Se...
2 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release