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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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Need to support http for PE server for containers

Right now, this is supported for Websphere/Weblogic only: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/filenet-p8-platform/5.6.0?topic=how-pe-pe-https-workflow-transfer-configuration-changes Want this support for containers as well. I.e. I have to use a custom net...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Remove the link between the DB schema name and DB User, so that the DB Username can be changed

This is to allow for changes to be made to the DB Username and to prevent the validation step using BPMConfig.sh from failing when running DB commands.
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Add ability to change pod timezone for Business Automation Studio similar to what is possible for Workflow Runtime

The Workflow Runtime pod allows a user to set the Timezone for the pod:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0.1?topic=parameters-business-automation-workflow-runtime-workstream-servicesenvironment_config.timezone Timezone of...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

To Have a BPM REST API that gets the environment variables from a Toolkit

2. Feature Design of Get REST API https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/25.0.0?topic=variables-get to get the environment variable from a Toolkit using the following Get request: GET /rest/bpm/wle/v1/system/env/variable?processA...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Enable fetching of oidc access_token from zen/foundational services to use for authenticating downstream services.

It is useful because it would enable us to authentienticate downstream services (BAW external services) with access_token generated from OIDC flow (and ideally compatible with this: Invoking CP4BA APIs using custom authentication tokens). From BAW...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

Reduce or accelerate the reconciliation cycle for implementing changes in CP4BA

Detailed Description: Currently, in Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA), whenever changes are made to component configurations, it is necessary to wait for the reconciliation cycle to run automatically for the adjustments to take effect. Thi...
8 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other Submitted

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....
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

FileNet Content Manager domain option to remove "Key Management" configuration

As part of Proof-of-concept implementation, we enabled 'KMIP' configuration under P8 Domain > Key Management and successfully tested it in Non-Production environment. With complexity of the configuration and operational challenges, we plan to u...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

FileNet Content Manager on Containers should allow tracking infrequent users

FNCM terms provide the concept of Infrequent Users, stating "Licensee must track accesses by Infrequent Users to verify that they meet the access limitations of Infrequent Users." In traditional environments, ILMTCollector/ILMTReporter are a means...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

API endpoint to list executed bots

IBM RPA uses API endpoints to call Bots outside of Control Center context, like an external application. Customer suggested having an API endpoint to check for the history of bot executions to understand whether an instance has been executed or no...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted