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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:

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

Logs created by Task mining agent does not use host ID for resource name

Logs should use Host ID as this could be a different user
about 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Not under consideration

Entry template versioning settings should get respect by edit service. edit service should not not always refer last checked in version type (major/minor).

Customer have use cases where users doesn't use checkin/checkout option but rely heavily on edit service. They also have settings to let user always create minor version and only from the workflow they create major version. so in this case if a us...
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Capability to have JWT authentication for BPM REST Endpoints as provider for consumer applications

Capability to have JWT authentication for BPM REST Endpoints as provider for consumer applications. Currently it is Basic Authentication but since majority of the enterprise are on more robust authentication patterns such as JWT, it will make more...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Functionality already exists

CMOD Thick Client provide Active Session Timeout option

Currently OnDemand Windows thick Client provides setting for Inactive Session Timeout, but does not provide a setting for Active Session Timeout. On zOS, even after ARSSOCKD is cycled, a user who was connected to the server remained active and is ...
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 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...
about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Define composite search criteria on more than one property template in Search Template

Over the years of using the FileNet Content management system, customer environment end up having alias property templates to describe the same index information of the document. A line of business might create a document and index a property on a...
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Audit user actions and login info in ICN

As the Microsoft office add-on is a separately licensed feature to use within the ICN Virtual viewer, our client required to list out the users who use the viewer to view the office documents. As an application support team, we do not have a way t...
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

SSO Support for RPA SaaS

This feature can be beneficial for customer to have a more robust authentication when logging into the platform. This would allow customer to use MFA based on their identity provider.
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Disable process status summary for non tw_admins users

In production, our Developers or other users are not part of tw_admins. However, they are still able to see all the Process Apps in the Process Status Summary Page. We would like to have a way to disable the visibility of all process applications ...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Automate the ICN Update to the DBUpgrade.sh command run

Case number - TS018744340 This is required step 12 in DBUpgrade https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7175521 deployment_manager_profile/dbscripts/Upgrade/cell_name.deployment_environment_name/database_type/database_name.schema_name/upgradeSchema...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration