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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:

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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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Provide an option so IBM License Service does not create the CR

We’d like a change to the license operator logic to check if a cr was provided and throw an error if one is not present and if one is present parse it and attempt to use it. Or create a new OPR flag to ONLY dump a template cr IF a site asks it to....
7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

BAW CI/CD support to other Git hosts (e.g., Bitbucket and GitLab)

product support for BAW CI/CD support to other Git hosts (e.g., Bitbucket and GitLab)
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Preferred login/skip_pref_login=true issue

The skip_pref_login parameter is currently functioning as expected. However, the login flow could be improved so that the skip flag persists until the user successfully logs in or explicitly navigates away.
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Adding mail attribute of LDAP in LSW_USR_XREF table

Why is it useful? We are currently working on workflow implementation for Qatar’s largest bank, which has more than 475 processes running in the production environment and a substantial number of new instances being created daily. The daily task v...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Provide Daeja View Toolkit for BAW

We use Daeja View embedded into BAW using a toolkit originally created by an IBM employee (https://us-south.git.cloud.ibm.com/schwarzs/bpm-ui-Daeja.Document.Viewer/-/tree/master). This toolkit is very useful but is now showing it's age as BAW has ...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 8 Future consideration

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...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Ability to monitor the navigator app probes with http port Since ROSA 4.17.15 the GO has been upgraded and enforces stricter cipher policies, and RSA-based ciphers (especially those without forward secrecy) are now blocked by default. That’s why the probes on port 9443 (HTTPS) are failing, and switching to HTTP on 9080 becomes essential to get the operator up.

Ability to monitor the navigator app probes with http port Since ROSA 4.17.15 the GO has been upgraded and enforces stricter cipher policies, and RSA-based ciphers (especially those without forward secrecy) are now blocked by default. That’s why t...
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Task mining - solving a problem with a chrome browser extension

Task mining - solving a problem with a chrome browser extension Due to the need to have an extension for the chrome browser, there are problems with access from the organization. This results in the inability to record user activity in the browser...
8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Is a defect

New Data Mapping dialog in Process Center 23.0.1 should differ between input, output and private variables.

Case TS014697681 was opened to address that the new data mapping dialog does not differ between input, output and private variables.We were told in the case:"It's irrelevant as to what tab you are on (input mapping, output mapping) as to what vari...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The new data mapping dialog in PC 23.0.1 should switch between graphical and JS input and wait for input or leave the existing one instead of emptying the existing values.

After our move to BAW 23.0.1 and Process Center 23.0.1 we were struggling with the new data mapping dialog and opened case TS014292733. We started with data mapping as defined prior to 23.0.1 and see the "JS" marker. Then we switch to JS mode and ...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Planned for future release