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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 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

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Possibility to configure own S3 storage

Current version support IBM S3, AWS S3 and Azure, but it isn't possible to own S3 storage, for example MinIO or Ceph RGW S3.It will be good if you add possibility to configure endpoint at AWS tab, then it will be possible to configure own S3 storage.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Unify the two validation frameworks in BPM

We are using BPM 8.6.0 and would like to have a tighter coupling of the BPM validation framework, tw.system.coachValidation, together with new client-side validation, bpmext.ui.setValid().Currently, BPM validation framework, tw.system.coachValidat...
almost 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM Process Mining to enable license metrics notification

Today, some customers want to monitor their licensing metrics, such as processes, users, and events, and be notified about them. We suggest functionality that counts these metrics and sends notifications when limits are exceeded
almost 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2

Ability to integrate with open AI models/framework other than watsonx.ai action library

we got feedback from the Ontario ministry of health canada client with concerns in using watsonx.ai. The AI board at OPS has a few external AI models/frameworks (AWS and Microsoft ones) approved but not watsonx.ai.
12 months ago in Datacap 2 Needs more information

Process Inspector: Configurable area for the process application filter

In BAW 24.0.1, the Process Inspector’s filter now displays the list of processes within a fixed-size area that includes a scrollbar, ensuring that the control buttons remain visible at all times. This contrasts with BAW 24.0.0, where the full list...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Add an ability to check the CBR-status of a document in the full text index

Related to case TS008281004 we have the problem that there is no chance (confirmed by L3) to check if a document is correctly inserted into the full text index. We need a tool or consitency check that enables us to check, if a document and all its...
almost 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Exclude specific MimeTypes from being CBR-indexed BEFORE content is loaded from Fixed Content Device

We have several document classes that contain documents of a wide varity of mimetypes. The document classes are CBR enabled but it is very obvious that some MimeTypes within this document class are not valid for CBR indexing (i.e. images or videos...
almost 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

Move Processes and Tasks from One Installation to Another

Need an option for move completed instances and tasks from one installation to another (ex: CP4BA)
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Access required for user deifned resource bundle variables in load&inline JS in coachview

Hi Team, Please provide access to get user defined resource bundle variables in load&inline js in coachview. If we store error messages of application in resource bundle and if we want to do validations within CV(inline js) we need to hardcode...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

convert multi-value property from default system table to its own table

this is a feature to persist multi-value property to its own table https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/filenet-p8-platform/5.5.x?topic=icped-persisting-multi-valued-properties-in-their-own-database-table However, for existing multi-value property, current...
almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration