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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

Enhance search filter for group retrieval to reduce latency during LLLDAP authentication

Due to the way Datacap handles group retrieval during authentication we experience significant latency during LLDAP authentication for users who are members of many groups. Indeed, Datacap uses a global LDAP chain (for LLDAP authentication) but it...
over 3 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Create additional parameters in ars.cfg to be used specific for ARSLSYNC to separate them from normal LDAP config instead of being shared parameters for both LDAP & ARSLSYNC

Create additional parameters in ars.cfg to be used specific for ARSLSYNC to separate them from normal LDAP config instead of being shared parameters for both LDAP & ARSLSYNC Summary Currently the LDAP Parameters configured in ars.cfg locally o...
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Not under consideration

Case Builder to delete solution properties from runtime configuration

Currently when a solution designer deletes a solution property in Case Builder, the property is only deleted from the solution definition. The property stays available in the runtime data. This behavior is not intuitive for developers and business...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add Slovenian language in BAW

More and more banks are interested in the BPM platform, and one of the limitations is the inability to localize the Process Portal application into the Slovenian(slovenčina) language. This is already done for CP4BA, i don't know why is not on BAW ...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add ActivityID to Process Items Tab of Export

In the Excel export, add the activityID to the Process Items tab. Alternatively, at least make the same capability available in an API.
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Remove comments from client side browser code (BPMExt-Control-BPMFileList.js)

Security concerns regarding comments in BPMExt-Control-BPMFileList.js which contains CMIS queries. Suggestion is to remove comments from browser side code.
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Resolve separation of duties issue to address compliance issue

This request would be useful for everyone that requires separation of duties for compliance. We have "Business" users that create table changes on a Branch. These branches are then merged to Business Change Branch, then Stage, then Prod by our "De...
almost 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Future consideration

Ability to restrict the file upload of 0 kb or a corrupted file

Ability to restrict the file upload of 0 kb or a corrupted file & Ability to restrict the file upload larger than a specific size Corrupted files are accidentally uploaded to FileNet via Content Navigator.
almost 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Be able to run the Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) LDAP synchronization (ARSLSYNC) program on a remote server

We would prefer to run the ARSLSYNC program remotely, with the ars.cfg configured on the same remote server with required LDAP Parameters to complete the SYNC with a specific LDAP server. Reason is, is that the LDAP Parameters configured in ars.cf...
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

Improvement for TwSearch functionality in IBM BPM. Need to be able to find all instances regardless of task status

TwSearch functionality in IBM BPM is only fully functional for administrators. Regular users, i.e. case workers, might be misled by information from dashboards as they don't get to see some of the instances. Process instances are only visible if t...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration