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
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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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Increase character Limit for USER_NAME value in lsw_user_xref table to 113

Microsoft AD UPN has a character limit of 113 and IBM BAW lsw_usr_xref table has character limit of 64 characters. usernames with characters more than 64 cannot be properly configured on IBM BAW. An increase in char Limit to 113 as Active director...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Run type field in the data-source on the dashboard

With the new licensing format, the customer has no way to follow the usage of his license via the dashboard, because we have no information in the data source on whether that record is from an attended bot or unattended bot execution.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

BAW product DBUpgrade Scripts to support SSL enabled datasource

We are unable to establish connection to backend DB via SSL enabled datasource during DB upgrade script execution as a part of BAW version upgrade . It's a known limitation that upgrade tools connect to the database outside the AppServer context a...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Increase the Case Manager in-basket filter to more than 200

The number of work items that are contained in an in-basket is displayed on the tab next to the in-basket name. The default paging size is 200 and is not configurable, as an IBM Content Navigator implementation. technote: In-baskets - IBM Document...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

A bulk update facility in updating same data fields with the same data for multiple process\activity boxes.

A bulk update facility is now becoming a must. We are waiting days and sometimes weeks updating the same data fields with the same data, and wasting hours and hours of time on this and this time can definitely be spent on more pressing items of work.
6 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

FileNet Object Stores and definitions created by a CR Defintion

It would be really good have a FileNet Operator that created object stores and definitions based on a CRD in OpenShift with an appropriate operator. This would also help in the installation process making things far easier to debug.
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

Windows Authentication Support for CP4BA Database connections

Currently traditional BAW supports both SQL Server and Windows authentication methods. However, CP4BA only has the SQL Server authentication support. Some organization policies do not allow using SQL server authentication when databases are runnin...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

Allow multiple uploads of the same document

We have a business use case to allow one document to be uploaded to two different document classes. One document class has a subset of index information, but is viewable to a larger group. Our current solution is to scan the document in twice. Dat...
about 1 year ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Improvements in TM and PM integration - Add TM recorded Task to continue a event log based Process.

See the following situation: 1- An application emits event logs for a specific App as part of the process. 2- Later, the users must perform a series of actions on their machines to complete the process. Those actions are recorded in IBM Task Minin...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Future consideration

SOAP Web Services Policy set and bindings for inbound and outbound integration should be supported for CP4BA

Traditional Business Automation Workflow (BAW) supports defining policy sets and bindings for both inbound and outbound integrations. A customer who intends to migrate their existing BAW inbound and outbound integration to IBM Cloud Pak for Busine...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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