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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

Add Polish language support to IBM Process Mining to improve accessibility for Polish-speaking users

Polish language support in IBM Process Mining will help public sector organizations work more efficiently by removing language barriers. It should include UI localization: Translate menus, messages, and help content. Documentation: Guides and tuto...
9 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

Task mining - Firefox browser (website names)

Task mining - Firefox browser (website names) In the case of a browser with a browser plugin (Edge), we are given the name of the website. The same should apply to Firefox or other browsers.
12 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2 Future consideration

Process mining - Administration (exporting reports, data)

Process mining - Administration (exporting reports, data) In the “Recent activities” tab, you can download a CSV file. The same option should be available in other tabs (Tenants, Jobs, Usage details, etc.).
12 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to invoke a specific node or a group of nodes within a decision model through the ADS REST API, allowing callers to target a subset of the decision graph without executing the entire model.

Currently, the ADS Decision Runtime REST API only supports execution at the decision service operation level. There is no mechanism to target a specific node or a logical group of nodes within the model. The proposed feature would allow API consum...
about 1 month ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Under review

Visual Studio Plugin for ODM Rule Development

ODM provides Eclipse Rule Designer Plugin. None for Vistual Studio. VS is the IDE of choice for CoPilot. Need ability to leverage LLM capabilities using ODM regardless of persona ( Developer vs Business user) and use any model of choice
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Renaming a group in Okta causes the corresponding FileNet group reference to become orphaned after SCIM push to CP4BA.

When a group is renamed in Okta and pushed through SCIM / IdP to CP4BA, the renamed group does not maintain the same effective linkage in FileNet. As a result, the original group reference in FileNet becomes orphaned, which can affect access tied ...
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Need a cron job for cleaning up old cache directories

Today, ICN uses a PVC named icn-vw-cachestore to storage cached files. Each pod, when it comes up, creates a subdirectory named after itself for its own cached files. If the pods gets bounced for any reason, the pod that replaces it will create it...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Under review

Netapp SnapLock Customers are not welcome in the containerized world

There are many customers in the fields which are using FileNet Content Manager since years successfully in combination with Netapp SnapLock volumes. They have created many volumes due to compliance reasons. They have grouped volumes for each year ...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 2 Future consideration

Apache poi libraries are outdated in BAW 24.0.0

The Apache poi libraries used by the product introduce a class-conflict with the latest version of Apache poi we use in our development. We see this as a vulnerability and would like this to be addressed.
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Retrieval of group name associated to a batch

We would need a supported API, database query, RuleRunner action or .NET API method that allows a custom action running in RuleRunner to retrieve the Group Name(s) of the group(s) associated with the current batch at runtime
4 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration