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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 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...

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Prevention of service flow call within context of inactive snapshot

Service flows on inactive snapshot could be unavaiable to call using REST interface. E.g. When URL-runnable human service X is using service Y (configured as "Allow calls from trusted callers"), the Y service is callable by REST using callerId of ...
22 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Detailed error messages

The application should return generic error information to the user. Detailed error information should only be logged on the server side.
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Submitted

BAW(Business Automation Workflow) or PFS(Process Federation Server) Search API to FDR, group getIndexedFieldsFromSearchInName multiple GET calls into 1 call

With external Elastic Search, the calls to perform getIndexedFieldsFromSearchInName happens individually on every 'Field' to check every 'Field' referenced in a search do exist in Elasticsearch. This slows down the search performance with External...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Under review

Provide ability to save Audit logs in Database

Currently, audit logs are being stored in the audit‑logs PVC. Please provide the capability to store audit logs directly in a database. We need a feature that allows CP4BA audit logs to be written directly to a database rather than only to persist...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Jira Stories to BAW Code traceability

Dear IBM Team, I have a requirement to establish test case traceability from Stories to code via JIRA. I did check for any suitable documentation in the IBM Documentation website, but couldn't find any such information.
24 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Additional setting within the audit definition to capture LDAP user access during content retrieval.

Additional setting within the audit definition to capture LDAP user access during content retrieval. It could enhance traceability and compliance for sensitive document access
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

connecting to SQL server database using Service Accounts

connecting to SQL server database using Service Accounts which will connect to BAW related databases (BPMDB, CMNDB) and other application based DB that uses JDBC connection. We have a change up comming from SQL DB team where they will stop allowin...
24 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Officially add Azure SQL to the list of supported Database

Azure SQL Database is the Cloud equivalent of Microsoft SQL Server (it uses the same core SQL Server database engine but is offered as a fully managed cloud service PAAS)Customer who wants to migrate their Microsoft SQL Server to the Cloud are lik...
25 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Feature enhancement request for Content Manager API to support multi-threading.

We have been consistently experiencing issue with ICN which is related to how the application is utilized. It looks like users are opening multiple browser sessions when using ICN which in turn are creating web container threads deadlocks. These a...
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager (CM8) 1 Future consideration

Provide an equivalent Machine Learning Integration ability in ODM 9.0 & 9.5 to that currently found in ADS

The existing Machine Learning Integration ability in ODM v9.0 & v9.5 is deficient for our needs as it only supports models deployed into IBM Cloud Pak for Data. We are looking to integrate both rules and model into a single decision management...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration