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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:

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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...

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Integrating Okta with CP4BA using SCIM should be supported in case management

There is a known limitation in CP4BA that management case solutions and applications are not supported when integrating with OKTA using SCIM. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0.0?topic=notes-known-limitations#concept_gmf...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

AI Code Assistant Integration for IBM BAW

Enable integration of AI-powered code assistants within IBM Business Automation Workflow to support users in supporting, refining, and understanding code across the platform. Similar to capabilities found in modern IDEs, this assistant would provi...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Allow the creation of event thersholds per project to expand administration

Problem: The squad that works with IBM Process Mining needs to be able to control the threshold of events that each project can have, and they need this threshold to limit the data that can be uploaded. The Admn should be able to define events thr...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release

Need to support http for PE server for containers

Right now, this is supported for Websphere/Weblogic only: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/filenet-p8-platform/5.6.0?topic=how-pe-pe-https-workflow-transfer-configuration-changes Want this support for containers as well. I.e. I have to use a custom net...
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Datacap ILMT PVU/VPC support

Datacap currently does not show up in ILMT reports. We have run the Database License Manager utility, selected PVU, executed it and it generated the swidtag files. However after re-running ILMT, Datacap is still not detected. The customer opened a...
28 days ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

New API for Overriding Deployment Queries

This is a request to provide a new API for generating and deploying a decision service that provides the ability to pass the text of the query to use in the validator. IlrArchiveOutput deployDSRuleAppArchive(IlrDeployment deployment, java.util.Co...
28 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Improve JobService public Java API: allow query jobs by status, process id and process instance id

Santander has integrated BAMOE implementing custom REST endpoints instead of the ones the product provides. They're using public Java API for implementing process management capabilities, and now they're missing some methods in the JobService Java...
28 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Under review

Customizing IAF Routes urls for CP4BA in RHOCP

As we install the Cp4BA through Multi pattern operator in RHOCP, the product takes default Openshift console ingress to create all the routes, as the organization standard we have dedicated ingress route created for our Namespace to better manage ...
28 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Enable Rediscovery of REST APIs in IBM BAW with the ability to reuse existing Business Objects (BOs) even when the OpenAPI YAML/JSON files are located in different paths.

Currently IBM BAW doesn’t permit to rediscover a REST API service and if something changes the only option available is the discovery of a new REST API service. The discovery of a new REST API Service, even if it can be bound on the same server di...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

EC to BC migration: Business rule version history no longer shows the "Used In"

When you look at a rule history in the Enterprise Console, you get a column "Used In" It shows for each version which branches / baseline uses this version of the rule. However, this information is missing in the Business Console. Not available in...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 8 Future consideration