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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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

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

Remove auto fill metadata's from AI generated Blueprints

With the recent enhancement, AI can generate Blueprints from images and text. However, during blueprint generation, the AI is automatically populating activity-level metadata such as Cycle Time, Cost, Risk, and other attributes. These are sensitiv...
27 days ago in Blueworks Live 1

Datacap to support DB2 RDS to allign with CP4BA

IBM Datacap currently does not support IBM Db2 deployed on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) as a backend database. Other components within the IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) portfolio already support Db2 on Amazon RDS...
27 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Under review

Provide the feature to compare two snapshots for CP4BA

We only have the compare snapshots functionality on Process Center console (classic Workflow Center console) for BAW on premise, but customer does want to have the feature in CP4BA as well, that can help customer to check the exact code changes be...
27 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

To remove character restriction in Text to Blueprint (with AI)

IBM recently introduced the AI-powered Text-to-Blueprint capability in Blueworks Live, which is proving highly effective in converting textual process descriptions into process blueprints. However, the current input limitation of 5,000 characters ...
27 days ago in Blueworks Live 1

Allow CPD app url to be embedded in the other Web app through iframe

We have internal web application which embeds the CPD ICN URL in their app within iframe. When accessing the icn url the iframe is blocking the cpd url which is enabled with SSO.It is understood that blocking happens due to Content-Security-Policy...
27 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

The DocuSign signature status should not always be visible in the magazine view of search results

When viewing a search result in the magazine view, the value of the Signature Status property is shown as text and always visible. There is no option to hide this property from being displayed there. This can be confusing for users because the val...
5 months ago in Content Navigator 1 Needs more information

Collector HANA Application

we are looking for solution to integrate Cognos 11.1 with SAP HANA Application
over 6 years ago in Content Collector for SAP 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in Content Manager (CM8) 1 Future consideration

Native validation of third-party IdP tokens for system-to-system (no-user) calls to CP4BA/BAW REST APIs using OAuth client_credentials

Problem / gap: CP4BA IAM (Zen) currently expects an IdP -> IAM -> Zen token exchange and requires a valid AD/directory user in the token subject before it will authorise a call. It cannot natively validate arbitrary external (third-party) Id...
28 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Task mining - audit - additional info (Start time)

In the audit tab, in addition to the specified upload time (end of recording), the start time (start of recording) should also be included.
11 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration