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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:

Search existing ideas

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,

Post your ideas
  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

Automate the cleanup of the console and messages logs created under the podname directories

Logs are created in /opt/ibm/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/logs for each pod. As pods are shutdown and restarted during kubernetes maintenance or other work, additional log directories are created, leaving the old directories in place. This requir...
7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Need to move xom-libraries folder in order to deploy the files that are built using Maven build command

Context: This is regarding the build command using maven. The customer is on 9.0/ Windows. He has multiple projects he used to build with eclipsec. But after upgrading to 9.0 he was trying build command. The customer used maven to build the sample...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

New Data Mapping dialog in Process Center 23.0.1 should differ between input, output and private variables.

Case TS014697681 was opened to address that the new data mapping dialog does not differ between input, output and private variables.We were told in the case:"It's irrelevant as to what tab you are on (input mapping, output mapping) as to what vari...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The new data mapping dialog in PC 23.0.1 should switch between graphical and JS input and wait for input or leave the existing one instead of emptying the existing values.

After our move to BAW 23.0.1 and Process Center 23.0.1 we were struggling with the new data mapping dialog and opened case TS014292733. We started with data mapping as defined prior to 23.0.1 and see the "JS" marker. Then we switch to JS mode and ...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Planned for future release

Provide a public API for event log quality validation before upload

Currently, IBM Process Mining performs event log quality checks only after the file is uploaded to the platform. There is no REST API endpoint or publicly available tool that allows clients to validate their event logs before uploading them.
3 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

IBM FileNet - EntraID username/password to pedesigner

CPE deployment with KeyCloak as the IDP and EntraID as the Identity Provider connected to Keycloak
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Improve Team filters: dynamic recalc and manage members

Team filters currently calculate a set of members once, then store it in an ad-hoc group which is static and inaccessible to the developer. Team filters should allow (optional) dynamic re-calculation of their members, so that changes in the user p...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support configurable transaction timeouts for REST API operations in IBM ODM to improve CI/CD pipeline reliability.

Currently, IBM ODM only honors transaction timeout settings for the Business Console, while REST API operations do not reflect these configurations. This limitation affects use cases where long-running operations—such as importing branches or crea...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

The ICN stored search displays the Boolean operators between the groups and the individual criteria only in edit mode. It should be visible both Edit mode and while opening normal stored search.

The issue is that, when you create a search that has property groups, as long as the search is in Edit mode by the creator/owner of the search the Boolean operators within the group and between the group and the individual criteria are visible. Bu...
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Support TLS 1.3

Provide faster and more secure encryption/handshake with TLS 1.3, reducing latency and improving cryptographic algorithms. State Farm is in the process of Cryptographic Modernization and have given the dates below for implementing TLS 1.3 Sandbox ...
6 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Planned for future release