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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

Add a way to see which artifact where modified between two Snapshots

A client is collaborating with a larger team to migrate processes from their previous systems to BAW. As the amount of process to migrate is important, multiple developers are working in parallel, and also modifying the same toolkits/process apps ...
3 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Add new scope to /glossary-values/{value-id}/usage API

Currently the glossary values API only returns usage in Active models - it does not include historical usages (e.g. in snapshots). When we try to clean up un-used glossary items, the first step is to identify those which were created by glossary i...
10 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

We want a way to selectively synchronize only users, ODM role mappings, and Zen API keys between two existing Foundational Services environments.

there is no documented or supported procedure to selectively synchronize only users, ODM role mappings, and Zen API keys between two existing Foundational Services environments. This is what we need with a DR Environment and a production environme...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Needs more information

IBM Content Collector FIPS 140-3 Compliance

  Good Afternoon, The client has mandated that all software products and their associated components be compliant with FIPS 140-3 standards. Support case TS022799550 was previously opened to determine whether ICC is FIPS 140-3 compliant. Base...
3 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Add support for configurable Filebeat output in ICP4ACluster, equivalent to WfPSRuntime

In IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation, the WfPSRuntime custom resource provides a support mechanizm for configuring the output of embedded Filebeat sidecar, such us node: logging enebleFilebeat: true filebeatOutputSecret: <secret-name> Th...
26 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Needs more information

Browse/Search feature - Enable the sort on document/folder class name

Hi, to check the case follow the scenario : - From ICN admin console Opened Repositories --> Browse --> Choose "Class" from the available properties - Open the ICN browse features, navigator to a folder containing documents and the Class col...
20 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

Ability to change path to private .pem key file without uploading a new public one

Ability to update the path to the existing private .pem key file without requiring the upload or regeneration of a new public key. This provides greater flexibility for key management by allowing administrators to relocate or replace the private k...
4 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Synchronization of Process Portal User Preferences and Attributes across Federated Environments

Provide a mechanism to automatically synchronize Process Portal user preferences and profile attributes from the federated Process Portal host to all participating federated workflow servers. Example, when there's a federated topology like this: A...
9 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Starts a new process instance from the specific nodes

In bamoe 8.x we have an API to start a process instance from specific node, this feature is not available in BAMOE 9.x Can you provide such feature in 9.x, we currently have applications that rely on that feature.
10 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x 0 Planned for future release

ODM on containers to allow additional DSR dedicated configuration settings

The current configuration for dedicated DSR deployments are not enought:for example, jvm options -- different DSR deployments might need to use a different jvm options logging setting -- to troubleshooting a particular deployment, different DSR de...
11 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration