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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

Ability to select and edit multiple activities at once

There should be functionality that allows you to select multiple objects and edit the details behind them at the same time. Either multiple select activities, add details and it populates the details for all that were selected, or open multiple wi...
20 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

FIPS 140-3 compliance for CMOD 10.5.0.8 and above.

The client has mandated that all software components be FIPS 140-3 compliant for CMOD version 10.5.0.8 and later. However, according to the IBM engineer, CMOD version 10.5.x supports FIPS 140-2 compliance only through GSKit and does not currently ...
28 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

SOP section of Library

Similar to the Policy section there should be an SOP section where you can add details about the SOP and then connect the SOPs to your process/activities. Being able to connect it like Policy means that you can reuse them instead of just pasting t...
6 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Allow to build rulesets with the same artifacts name in different projects of a decision service.

If the 2 ruleflows or 2 rules have the same name in the same package in different projects we need to be able to include those in the ruleset generated. Adding the project name as a folder path would allow for being able to distinguish all artifac...
6 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Ability to specify a custom Flyway migration location for a specific KIE module

We need to replace a PostgreSQL migration distributed by the following BAMOE 9.5.2 module: org.jbpm:jbpm-addons-usertask-storage-jpa:9.5.2-ibm-0002 The module provides its KIE Flyway configuration through: META-INF/kie-flyway.properties For Postgr...

Provide a supported option to suppress or sanitize Java exception class names returned in BAW REST API exceptionType responses

Environment Product: IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) Version: 26.0.0 Database: DB2 Operating System: RHEL Deployment: WebSphere Application Server-based BAW environment Affected interface: BAW Workflow REST API (/rest/bpm/wle/v1/...) Issue ...
6 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

CSV Injection Vulnerability

The application allows user-controllable data to be exported in CSV format without proper sanitization. Fields containing user input, such as names, descriptions, or comments, are directly embedded into CSV cells. When opened in spreadsheet applic...
6 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 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...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Needs more information

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...
26 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Offer more Customization Options for IBM Workplace

Currently, customizing IBM Workplace is not supported, which stands in contrast to the flexibility previously available in IBM Process Portal. At the moment, the only supported option is to build a completely standalone work portal using the four ...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration