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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...

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Password Auto rotation

Feature being requested Password for DB Account and LDAP Account to be auto sync with vault (like hashicorp vault) Why is it required Due to increased cyber attacks passwords should be auto rotated either on defined period or whenever there is som...
about 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

BAI support on EKS

Allianz UK is using BAW /Case Manager with Case Analyzer and Cognos traditional on WAS. Allianz is migrating all existing FileNet / BAW implementations to AWS with native EKS Allianz asked for a roadmap using IBM BAI in this environment to replace...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

Translation & multi language support

We are a FTSE 100 Company with sites across all of Europe. We operate in up to 10 languages and need to be able to view our standard process maps in most of these languages without creating multiple uncontrolled translated copies!
about 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

More attach points on gateways

Want more attach points on the gateway. Currently only have 4, with at least one used for the input.
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Ability to delete records from single table in PDWDB

Currently REST API's allows to purge by date and cleans all the tables. We need few tables for months and few for days. So we should have ability to select individual tables to purge and provide dates.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

While Installing BPM the users/schemas are given DBA level access which causes security concerns

While Installing ISC which works on top on BAW/BPM . There are many privileges which are given to the 14 users created for the installation with oracle DB . All the priveleges are mentioned on the below link : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/22.x?...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Possibility of using shared libraries in a custom widget with case manager configuration tool

It would be great if a class that is available in BAW Server, such as shared libraries, could be shared across multiple widget or application and be included with the class loader to avoid duplication.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Enable logging of deployer's username/ip when deploying ruleapps via RES console or Rule Designer

Our distributed team has several specialists responsible for developing and deploying rule apps to Production and Test environments. We do not use Decision Center. Our team deploys rule apps directly through RES Console. Currently there's no way t...
over 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Individual attachment size limit

This enhancement prevents reaching the available attachments space by loading too large attachments. It is useful especially for account admins, but all users will benefit as they will not be contacted by admin to remove too large attachments and ...
about 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Display date property with date format only, no need hour/minutes/second

There are some properties have only date nature (yyyy/mm/dd), no need HH/MM/SS, but in CMS, it displays all datetime properties with “mm/dd/yyyy, HH:MM AM/PM”, such as "1/25/2022, 12:00 AM"
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration