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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 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

Requesting CP4BA to support Akeyless

We are running CP4BA 25.0.0 on AWS cloud platform. Currently, we are using AWS Secret Manager as the secret provider in CP4BA. Based on the business requirement, we need to change it to Akeyless. But we are informed that Akeyless has not been qual...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Process mining - additional suggestions (guidelines) for errors

Adding hints to help resolve a given error Adding, in the form of a comment or an additional box, information on how to solve the error (e.g. No such column "eventlog.endtime_ts"), such as providing the exact path to the tab, step or file where yo...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

Prevention of Concurrent Sessions for the Same User Account in IBM RPA Control Center

Currently, IBM RPA Control Center allows the same user account to be logged in simultaneously from multiple browsers, multiple computers, or multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) without terminating the older session. We request an enhancement to introd...
2 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

WTM does not have the ability to set ScanSrcPath attribute in the dco when an upload is called

When using Datacap + wTM service Queue/UploadFile API, in the xml output, original Filename is not present. However, Below attribute is available in OOTB vscan.xml when we ingest a file from Datacap studio. <V n="ScanSrcPath">C:\Datacap\Spli...
2 months ago in Datacap 0 Under review

CPE: Remove relationship when deleting a child compound document

The original design documentation for the compound documents feature clearly state that when using Dynamic relationships, in some cases the relationship can point at nothing if there isn’t a version which satisfies the binding rule. Furthermore, w...
9 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Process mining - the ability to read data from GCP Cloud

Process Mining - the ability to read data from the GCP Cloud "Create schedule source retrieval from cloud storage" options, the ability to read data from the GCP Cloud Storage should be added. The GCP Cloud Storage is used by the organization for ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

Hybrid Solution Fixed Content Storage (Retention) with Advanced Storage Area (Staging)

Enhance fixed content device storage to utilize advanced storage areas for staging vs a localized path / file storage location as currently designed. This would utilize the streaming aspects of advanced storage, eliminating local operating system ...
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

CP4BA - Import Process Mining KPIs

It would be great to have the import capability in the KPIs list. It is heavy duty when you want to reuse KPIs on another project and you have to create one by one. Maybe it is already a thing on the new release since I am using 2.0.3. Thanks in a...
8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Alternative way for solving CVE-2023-50959 in BAW.

In the context of CVE-2023-50959 which is solved by KI DT247523, we have a complex situation that cannot be solved with the two ECM services : ECM Document Authorization Service ECM Query Authorization Service Our security scan suggested to avoid ...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Support TLS 1.3

Provide faster and more secure encryption/handshake with TLS 1.3, reducing latency and improving cryptographic algorithms. State Farm is in the process of Cryptographic Modernization and have given the dates below for implementing TLS 1.3 Sandbox ...
5 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Planned for future release