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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

Datacap Scan & Verify panel to display image in dual window and to allow thumbnail and image viewer to be separated

Allow dual window to have a separate dialogue box or viewer. One for the image viewer and one for the thumbnail viewer.
7 months ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

IBM Content Navigator and Change Class with Entrytmplates: original entry template should be set as default selection

When checking in a document with an entry template in the ICN, the original entry template is not automatically set as the default. Users are forced to manually select an entry template even when they have no intention of changing it. ### Current ...
6 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Under review

IDOR Vulnerability

VAPT found a vulnerability that BPM session tokens of a user are not invalidated on logout. When another user logs in on the machine, and copies the session token of the previous user, they are able to re-use the FileNet URLs to access the documen...
24 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 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

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

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

Modify the Task Details section of Process Portal to refresh without re-rendering.

This issue arises when using a Process Portal that is configured as the host federated portal. When that is the case, the Process Portal no longer relies on CometD for web messaging and instead refreshes at regular intervals, configured by the fed...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Possibility to Reordering the Glossary

There is no ability to reorder the fields in the glossary. Which in turn means there is no way to control which order the fields appear on the activity details when we are in a session creating a process flow. Currently we have to scroll down thro...
about 2 months ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

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

Support Export and Import of Individual Artifacts in BAW

IBM BAW currently provides export/import capabilities at the Process Application and Toolkit level. However, there are many situations where developers only need to share or move a single artifact, such as: Client-Side Human Service (CSHS) Service...
26 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted