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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:

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,

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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 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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Improve messages in CPE log to when access is denied to include the objectid

When troubleshooting access issue especially for developers to design assets it is very difficult to do without turning on security tracing. Here's an example CE_System0.log shows this message: 2024-07-31T08:19:28.743 0000018D ENG FNRCE0001E - ERR...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

2FA - Two factors authentication for w3 LDAP login.

Implementation of 2FA - Two factors authentication for w3 LDAP login as this is required by ITSS.
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Planned for future release

ODM Integration with Monitoring Solutions to see logs

We see that ODM has no integration with any of the Monitoring tools (Splunk, App Dynamics, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.). Although we have must-gather script to see logs it is not the best way to provide kubectl access to all users (as Mustgather scr...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

Allow a parameter to the Bulk Instance Details REST API method to only bring back the executionTree

We have situations where we need to move the token. The only place to get the token ids (that we have found) is the Bulk Instance Details method in the REST API. It brings back everything. We would like to have an option for the parts parameter to...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Add group feature in ICN search templates

The customer is designing search templates in ICN where we are using the "Add Group" functionality to add different groups in the search criteria so as to have the "Or match all of these properties" condition between the groups. For the above func...
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add Watermark to process model used to indicate "Draft" or other Admin defined flag

We currently have models that are not complete but need to be Published so Viewers can review them. There is a danger of Viewers searching for models and assuming they're final or current state. Having the ability to turn on a Watermark to display...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Ability to delete Computers objects from RPA's Web Client

Users must have the ability to delete Computers from the Web Client. This feature is useful for several reasons, including:- Users would be able to delete computers that are no longer used, avoiding the possibility of setting wrong computers in Pr...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

Have direct SAML authentication support for FileNet APIs

Right now FileNet APIs only support Kerberos as SSO authentication. However, these authentication protocols are becoming outdated compated to more advanced authentication prototcols like SAML. However, the FileNet documentation mentions there is n...
over 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Unable to rename applications captured by Task mining agent

Not possible to rename application names, uses process EXE technical name for task mining.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Future consideration

Export WebSphere Application Server Network Deployed Configurations to Container YAML

Converting on premise WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Network Deployed (ND) configurations to Kubernetes supported container platform YAML requires manual collection of configurations like Data Sources, Name Spaces, Connection Factories, Enviro...
over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration