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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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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

Enable auto-scaling of infrastructure in BACSoC/CP4BAaaS

Desire would be to allow auto-scaling for CP4BAaaS solutions (specifically BACSoC). This would allow for peak workloads to scale seamlessly without having to require maintenance windows to adjust for changing workloads.
about 1 year ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Remove Requirement for Object Server Recycle after Updating S3 Key

We are looking for a solution where object server does not need to recycle when S3 key is changed. Customer has very tight requirement on key rotation (12 hours) and is not feasible to recycle object server every time they key is updated. This is ...
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Add support for elasticsearch for full text indexing to Content Services on Cloud

This would allow customers who desire to use elasticsearch vs CSS to have that option within the IBM SaaS FileNet version (BACSoC)
about 1 year ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Need developer to be able to upload a decision service to Decision Center without requiring roles rtsAdmin or rtsInstaller. The core roles grant to much access to developers.

Need functionality that would permit a developer to upload a decision from Rule Designer without giving them rtsAdmin or rtsInstaller permission because they should not require that much permission.
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

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...
over 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...
over 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

CMOD 10.5 System Log to a file

I would like to be able to see the System Log in Cloud Watch or Sumo Logic or Data Dog or Slunk like application. Most of these ingest via a file on the OS. Would be great to be able to add something to the configuration to simply log this output ...
over 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration

Set SMSESSION=userid as a json header instead of using a cookie.

The utility the customer is using is much easier to set JSON headers than cookies, set SMSESSION=userid as a json and TMWeb is able to then use SSO after selecting the Application and station. Several of the customer's applications use this code t...
over 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

"Hover Dialog" for annotations to present real user name instead or in addition to a technical user, that is used to connect to the backend content repository

When using Daeja as part of a custom application, the "Hover Dialog" for annotations should display the real user name using the application instead or in addition to a technical user that is used by the application to connect to the content store...
over 2 years ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Future consideration

Integrate AI functions to assist people in process design and development

集成AI功能,让人们可以通过与AI机器人对话完成流程设计、开发工作。我相信,未来所有传统的软件都将集成AI功能,通过AI辅助人们完成日常工作。 ______________________________________________________ The idea elaborated as below by the customer : 1. AI business process automation consultant: You can communicate with us...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration