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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...

All ideas

Configure Blueworks Live Logout URL when using IBMid authentication

Currently IBMid does not support logout URL For IBMid Enterprise Federation (SAML SSO), IBMid does not currently support SAML Single Logout (SLO) with customer Identity Providers such as Entra ID, Okta, PingFederate, ADFS, or ForgeRock. Logging ou...
about 2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review

To Have a BPM REST API that gets the environment variables from a Toolkit

2. Feature Design of Get REST API https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/25.0.0?topic=variables-get to get the environment variable from a Toolkit using the following Get request: GET /rest/bpm/wle/v1/system/env/variable?processA...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Submitted

Requesting an enhancement to ARSJESD TLS connection handling so that malformed, mismatched, or incorrectly configured TLS connection attempts are rejected gracefully at the session level without causing the ARSJESD process to terminate.

The client has implemented TLS with ARSJESD in CMOD 10.5.0.10 on Linux. Correctly configured TLS connections work. However, when a user or upstream mainframe sender attempts to connect using TLS incorrectly, ARSJESD logs a TLS handshake failure an...
5 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

Enhance Case Client “Create Package” export to derive file extensions from MIME type

Environment Product: IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) Version: 21.0.x Platform: IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) Deployment: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) 4.16 Component: Case Client / Case Package expor...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Support multiple MQ input queues for BAW runtime in CP4BA

Currently CP4BA BAW only supports one single input queue for all automations. We would like to have support for multiple queues. This makes it possible for each business line and business application to have responsible for its own queues, making ...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Add a Content Navigator custom URL to edit ands co-edit documents with Office Online Server (and Office365 SaaS in the future)

IBM Content Navigator allows users to edit Office documents with Office Online Server from the web interface; however, this functionality is not exposed through a supported custom URL.It would be very useful for customers to have a custom URL - si...
7 months ago in Content Navigator 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...
over 2 years ago in Content Manager (CM8) 1 Future consideration

Introduce a warning when there is a date range mismatch in IBM Content Manager OnDemand

If a user enters an incorrect START_DT and STOP_DT in the application group, a warning will be presented to avoid issues with deletions in the future. For example: START_DT: 9999-12-31 23:59:59.0STOP_DT: 0001-01-01 00:00:00.0
5 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

Add feature for exporting and importing favorites in ICN desktops

Often customers wants to work in several desktops where same repositories are used with the same favorites which is not possible between different desktops. So waht about an exporting and importing feature for that? This would help our customers t...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Ability to have multiple NAS mounts and use more than one PV/PVC on a CPE container for file storage

We have multiple NAS mounts on one traditional WAS CPE server. We are in the process of upgrading to containers using the IBM FNCM Operator; however, there is a limitation to the CPE deployment where you can only have one PV/PVC assigned which mea...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted