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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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

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

Improve documentation and context between CP4BA, foundational services and specific components

The documentation landscape between a specific cloud pak , the foundational services and the specific components are hard to follow and there are not enough links to navigate the user to the right location. e.g. Finding APIs on a certain topic is ...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

Active Session Timeout Capability in CP4BA

Active session timeout in the CP4BA stack. In the current design, customer will need to change the active session timeout in ZEN, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/21.0.3?topic=administering-setting-session-idle-time-limits-...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Customize helm chart templates to allow management of the route configuration and a parameter to manage the hostname per container

I would like to be able to customize the helm chart templates to allow management of the route configuration with a parameter to manage the hostname per container. The current setup gives one hostname in the helm chart, but this doesn't help me to...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

store the encrypted FileNet password into 2 locations

to store the encrypted FileNet password into 2 locations so that the hacker will not easily decrypt the password even the encryption key is being stolen
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Download All Logs at once

It would be very helpful to be able to have a checkbox in the jobs section that would allow us to select one, some or all logs to be downloaded at once.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Changeable export data encoding

Customer is using “Data export” in the UI toolkit.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=toolkit-data-export They use this to export table data as csv. They want to change the character encoding of the output csv. As far as I look into, the da...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Retrieving passwords from Hashicorp Vault without Secrets Store CSI interface

Use Vault CLI image as a init-container to fetch secrets from Hashicorp Vault Echo out secrets to volume Mount Volume to ODM pods
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 11 Not under consideration

Add excel Command support to work with Confidential Excel File(Tag Internal)

The excelCommand currently fails when processing files tagged as confidential(tag internal). As a workaround, we're forced to use the officeCommand, which experiences performance degradation when reading large Excel files. We request an improvemen...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

“Critical” Flagging option within Property Field

Currently there is no option to flag Critical values within Property Fields Currently the resolution is to update 2 Property Fields. 1 for Critical values and 1 for Non-Critical values. This is creating double work to populate in 2 different field...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

ARSLSYNC - not importing username information from LDAP.

The ARSLSYNC process is lacking the ability to insert username details, currently it only updates the username. At the moment. The CMOD Administrator has the ability to update this information, this must be done manually. To resolve this issue, th...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Future consideration