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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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BAW repository

BAW has no general repo. in 2024 in BAW its hard to control changes done for a project which uses heavely Tracks its also annoying to manually make this changes between tracks which are prone to errors. Please develop a repository in which Merge a...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

IBM Process Designer is missing the properties specified by business objects shared in Case Builder

The case builder supports the reuse of Business Objects as Properties. In BAW Workflows (with case features) the use of properties and BO is supported. The reuse of properties is supported but not supported for BO. It's clearly for us an issue, be...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Allow multiple uploads of the same document

We have a business use case to allow one document to be uploaded to two different document classes. One document class has a subset of index information, but is viewable to a larger group. Our current solution is to scan the document in twice. Dat...
over 1 year ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Support of Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Systems to run against Read Only RDBMS and File Storage

Typically on premise systems have either a Production/Disaster Recovery or Production/Bunker/Disaster Recovery live / production system deployment model. In this model, if changes (upgrades, patches, JVM arguments & configs, web container patc...
almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Request to automate the setup procedure of Google Cloud storage during BAW installation in Cloud Container Platform

Hi BAW product team, With reference to the "PMR TS012347042 - How to automate to install GCS advance storage", everytime when our customer install the BAW (e.g. BAW 22.0.2) in google cloud container platform (i.e. GKE), our customer requires to ma...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow more than one user to edit connections in Control Center

Today, after creating a connection, only the user who created the connection has permission to edit it. We would like the possibility of at least allowing more than one user to have this permission to edit the same connection, which in this case w...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Clean pending processes on queue

Possibility to clean pending processes on queue. We identified that in some cases the processes were not executed and remained pending. The same happened with scripts that were running and failed, generating a backlog of pending processes (even if...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Support JWT token authentication for BAW Container

Support JWT token verification for BAW Container On BAW VM version, TAI feature of Traditional WAS can be used for JWT token verification, need the same for BAW container version
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Support SSO SPNEGO web authentication for BAW container

Support SSO SPNEGO web authentication for BAW container
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Improvements when changing the level of log files

We need a more practical way to change the level of log files. It would be ideal to have an interface to change the level of the logs. Our suggestion would be a new tab on the Licenses page (https://localhost:8099/web/pt-BR/license) where the us...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration