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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

BMPConfig tool is failing to create deployment environment because of the hyphen(-) in the DB user ID and in the databases name (ex: CMN-DB)

Our service accounts are generated with hyphen(-) in the ID using the automation process and we are unable to remove the hyphen(-) from the service account ID to support the working terminology of the service accounts. Due to this reason BAW advan...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

WINDOWS AUTHENTICATION support on LINUX REDHAT OS for BAW Advanced software

The current BAW advanced software doesn't support WINDOWS AUTHENTICATION on LINUX REDHAT servers to backend SQL Server on windows. This idea is raised to implement the WINDOWS AUTHENTICATION functionality to support on LINUX REDHAT OS to windows OS.
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support local group membership on IBM BAW Workflow Case administration

The new feature(P8 v5.5.7) allows defining a security group within the P8 domain instead of defining it in an LDAP directory service Feature Overiew https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/filenet-p8-platform/5.5.x?topic=v557-whats-new-administrators St...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Customization of Blueworks invite basis the Licence type

Ability to customize the content of BWL invite while sending invite to new users basis the licences. Currently we have one common content for all type of Licenses. Instead we can have the predefined template with the customised content basis the l...
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Request to view and change the business data for the linked and sub Processes scope via the Process Inspector

While trying to update the Data variables. We don't see all the data variables in the Process Inspector console. Like for example there is a field for EMails to be sent in the environment variable but this cant be seen under the Edit Data for this...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Changing default column headers in Datacap job monitor to Uppercase

In Datacap Navigator Job Monitor default column headers are in title case format.Customer managed to change custom columns in uppercase format using recommendations DB2 using https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7165575However, same recommendati...
about 1 year ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Provide some APIs to retrieve separately the important infos available in the XU Dump

Currently one has to retrieve a XU dump, or to retrieve the "DebugInfos" in the XU MBean, to be able to check some of the infos we can see in the XU Dump, such as the Connections. However, if we are just focusing on one part of those infos (such a...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Export directly to PDF in addition to DOCx

Customer uses PDF to display results. Currently need to export to Docx, ftp file to windows server, convert to pdf, then ftp back.
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Manage complex type EPVs in ProcessAdmin

If you want to change EPV-Value in Process Admin, this is no problem for simple type EPVs. But if you want to change the value on a complex type EPV an exception is thrown:Exception in SystemOut.log: ControllerSer E CWLLG0004E: A Throwable was cau...
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

An environment that only has ICN configured with Kerberos SSO, while everything is not configured with Kerberos SSO.

This will be useful for customer that wants to have an environment where ICN to be configured with Kerberos SSO and other products like BAW and CPE can be configured with other authentication methods such as basic authentication.
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration