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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...

All ideas

Use of OpenAPI Properties allOf, oneOf, anyOf

Business Case need use of the allOf, oneOf, anyOf provided from Rest OpenAPI
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

CPE: Remove relationship when deleting a child compound document

The original design documentation for the compound documents feature clearly state that when using Dynamic relationships, in some cases the relationship can point at nothing if there isn’t a version which satisfies the binding rule. Furthermore, w...
11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Word Wrap Participants in Swim Lanes and Milestones

In the Participant and Milestone sections, longer labels automatically increase the size of the corresponding area, even when it contains only a single activity. This can make process diagrams less readable and results in unnecessary space consump...
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Renaming a group in Okta causes the corresponding FileNet group reference to become orphaned after SCIM push to CP4BA.

When a group is renamed in Okta and pushed through SCIM / IdP to CP4BA, the renamed group does not maintain the same effective linkage in FileNet. As a result, the original group reference in FileNet becomes orphaned, which can affect access tied ...
7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Configurable ressources for init-folder-readonlyfs container

We are using the official helm charts from https://github.com/IBM/charts/tree/master/repo/ibm-helmCurrently I am using: ibm-odm-prod-25.1.7.tgz Our multi tenant Openshift 4.18 cluster is totally relying on ressouce quotas for namespaces.For our OD...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Exception Handling for the Scripts

My idea is to have something close to what we have in Blueprism today, a block. A block is a rectangular region that groups together all the stages that fall completely within it. A block can contain its own Recover Stage, which will handle except...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Planned for future release

BAW(Business Automation Workflow) or PFS(Process Federation Server) Search API to FDR, group getIndexedFieldsFromSearchInName multiple GET calls into 1 call

With external Elastic Search, the calls to perform getIndexedFieldsFromSearchInName happens individually on every 'Field' to check every 'Field' referenced in a search do exist in Elasticsearch. This slows down the search performance with External...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Under review

CP4BA - Import Process Mining KPIs

It would be great to have the import capability in the KPIs list. It is heavy duty when you want to reuse KPIs on another project and you have to create one by one. Maybe it is already a thing on the new release since I am using 2.0.3. Thanks in a...
10 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Add command to switch iframes for web automations with IBM RPA

Many webpages and especially ones which are being used to download various reports based on filters etc, but in general more robust pages, now usually include more then 1,2 iframes. It would be 100% flexibility and efficiency improvement if there ...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release