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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

Workflow Process Service support on CNCF - No routes needed

Customer's infrastructure does not support the usage of "Routes" to externalize product end points. Customer is deploying CP4BA - Workflow Process Service pattern. Be able to deploy Workflow Process Service addresses the limitation as it could be ...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Change a non-conformant process variant to conformant directly in the Model conformance pane

When viewing non-conformant process variants in the Model conformance pane in the Model page, users should be able to change / reclassify a non-conformant process variant as conformant. As of now the only option to simulate this action is to "Crea...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Planned for future release

Kerberos support for XA Recovery transactions using MSSQL datasource on BPM/WAS

The product currently provides the capability to use Kerberos Authentication for an MSSQL datasource. We have tested the MSSQL Datasource Kerberos connectivity. However, in case of a transaction failure, there is no XARecovery support using Kerber...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Eclipse 2020.06 contains vulnerabilities so ODM v8.11 should be compatible with the most recent version 2024-03

My organization's information Security area prevents us from downloading vulnerable software from the various marketplaces for IDEs. This includes the Eclipse marketplace or eclipse.org. Because of this, our rule application developers are not abl...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

IBM FileNet CPE Option to Detect and Split-On-Upload and Merge-On-Download Large Files - Parallelize and Improve Upload/Download Performance

Content sizes continue to grow due to rich media like audio recordings, video recordings, large data and/or logging files, videos with transcriptions, documents with many pages including images and embedded content. An idea for IBM FileNet Content...
about 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

CSHS - Allow Multiple outgoing connections from nested services.

In CSHS nested services, currently we are allowed to have multiple end events. But the limitation of having only single outbound connection prevents us from directly mapping those connections. Due to this, We have to use a decision gateway and dec...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

IBM BAW - Providing a Process Portal search index command to re-index only active process instances and open tasks

providing a Process Portal search index command to re-index only active process instances and open tasks in IBM Business Automation Workflow
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Search Functionality: Allow for the curated search list to be exported

The ability to export the searched list is very important because I currently get requests from associates wanting to know what models we have relating to a topic or keyword. I complete my search and then need to screen print a list for them or ty...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Additional BWL Admin functions

The Admin panel for BWL needs additional capabilities to properly manage users.-There should be a button to send a notification to all users (or a defined subgroup)-There should be a way to define a message for users to see when they log in within...
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Enhancement for ARSXML - Option to update ALL tables when switching a field between Index and Filter on the AG

The GUI allows you to decide whether or not to update all of the existing tables or only new ones going forward when flipping a field between Filter and Index however ARSXML does not have the capability. Allowing ARSXML this feature would mean we ...
10 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review