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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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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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  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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Support for Nutanix AHV 6.10

We have support for CP4BA on Nutanix AHV 5.10 With up-gradation of environment in customer DC, the new infrastructure is all on Nutanix ANV 6.10. Request is to add Nutanix ANV 6.10 in the supported infrastructure.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Functionality already exists

Display the right version of CP4BA with FixPack number in the OpenShift Console under Installed Operators

We have installed IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) version 24.0.0 IF003 in our OpenShift cluster (cpba-dev namespace). However, when we check the version shown in the OpenShift Console under Installed Operators, it displays the versio...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

REST API Constraint

Only GET Methods can be developed with Exposed Rest APIs (APIs opened from BPM to external systems). HTTP methods such as PUT, POST,DELETE should also be added here.
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Restricting access to Process Instance data for Admin User

Dear Team, There is a requirement in our organization to restrict access of Process Instance data to only users involved in the process. From Process Inspector, an admin (tw_admin) user can view/edit the data of the any process instance by search...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Feature to change the parameter ilog.rules.teamserver.transaction.timeout from UI

During a timeout issue, the user wants to change the above value as per the document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/odm/9.0.0?topic=reference-decision-center-parameters This requires many steps in up-packaging and re-packaging the war file. It would ...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Continuing need for ICN Classic Theme style

Deka Bank is using ICN with CPE and document browse / search . Endusers are accustomed to work with the Classic Style. Request from Deak Bank is to not remove support for the classic syste in upcoming releases
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator Future consideration

Build technical capability to leverage similar features bundled with IBM BAW standalone containers with IBM FileNet Content Manager standalone containers OR any other CNCF based offerrings to optimize the various resources like shared ICN, UMS, FileNet CPE, CMIS with BAW

We already have standalone CNCF based FileNet Content Manager containerized deployment in our environment. There was a request to build additional capability around CASE with standalone CNCF based BAW by leveraging similar capabilities like FileNe...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Sweep Frameworkt - Introduce a new SystemField like "SweepStatisticLastModifiedDate" instead of using "DateLastModified" for just statistic updates

We discovered by chance that the DateLastModified of a Policy Controlled Sweeps states that the last change on that object was made on a public holiday, where nobody was working. Policy-controlled sweeps keeps also the corresponding statistics. We...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Not under consideration

FileNet support for Nutanix AHV vitualization technology

Iberdrola's FileNet enviroments are currently deployed in Red Hat Virtualizacion tecnology, the support of RHV ends next years, so Iberdrola wants to change to another virtualization technology, they have Nutanix AHV as the default vitualization t...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Future consideration

Case Insensitive Searching

Searches and Stored Searches should allow the option to perform case insensitive searches, on both the complete search, or optionally for each string property being searched. FileNet Supports case insensitive searching on single properties being s...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator Future consideration