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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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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  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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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...
13 days 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...
about 2 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...
5 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....
10 months 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...
about 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...
about 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...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

Enable automatic opening of the next user task within the same process instance in Case Client / Navigator, so that users can continue working without returning to the in-basket and manually claiming the next task.

In Business Automation Workflow, when a user completes a task in Case Client (Navigator), they are redirected back to the in-basket and must manually locate and claim the next task, even when that task belongs to the same process instance and is i...
7 days ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Make DNS resolution behavior configurable for FileNet P8 CPE directory configurations when using LDAPS

FileNet Content Platform Engine currently resolves configured LDAP/LDAPS hostnames into individual IP addresses when a DNS alias with multiple A records is used. This behavior is acceptable for standard LDAP failover scenarios, but it creates a li...
14 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

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 ...
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

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