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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...

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Datacap Navigator under verfiy screen interface does not display the full file path of the document selected for upload. Which makes it difficult to confirm the source location of the document.

Enhance the Verify UI to include the complete file path of the browsed document. This will allow users to verify the origin of the file before submitting the batch, ensuring accuracy and reducing errors caused by selecting files from incorrect dir...
3 months ago in Datacap 2 Not under consideration

Is there a way for administrators to disable or restrict the PDF export (Print PDF) option for Viewer users?

Currently, there is no option to disable or restrict the PDF export option for Viewer users in IBM Blueworks Live. This limitation poses a challenge for administrators who need more control over document sharing and export permissions. Are there a...
9 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Have a configurable “Service unavailable” page for CP4BA components, which are currently unavailable, instead of the “Bad Gateway” error page.

Please find the detailed description of the scenario which we encountered recently. Business Justification: The “Bad Gateway” page does not provide users with meaningful information when a service is unavailable. A customized “Service Unavailable”...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Option to abort running LogCleanupCommand

We need the LogCleanupCommand to be able to be aborted quickly when it is running. The LogCleanupCommand is scheduled daily to run at 9 pm local time, but if it is still running at 7 am, it needs to be stopped so as not to impair the overall perfo...
12 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Is a defect

Support JDK 17 with BAMOE 8

Please find the business rationale for “BAM OE v.8.x support for JDK 17 request” as follows. Introduction: We have several critical applications running on IBM BAMOE v8.x. Unfortunately, IBM BAMOE v8 only officially supports OpenJDK versions 8 and...
8 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Future consideration

Integrating Okta with CP4BA using SCIM should be supported in case management

There is a known limitation in CP4BA that management case solutions and applications are not supported when integrating with OKTA using SCIM. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0.0?topic=notes-known-limitations#concept_gmf...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

Availability of Pluggable Variable Persistence (PVP) in BAMOE 9.3 or higher

From the documentation page of BAMOE 9.3.0 we can see that Pluggable variable persistence is currently not supported [1] Are you planning to support it in future release? We are using it in our applications built on top of BAMOE 8.x When are you p...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

Allow searches created by Navigator to include Custom Objects

We need to allow a group of Application Administrators the ability to Edit properties on custom objects. Yes we could give them ACCE, but ICN is a much nicer end user interface, and they are already using it to search for documents. Here's an old ...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

Improved Expired Certificate Handling for IBM RPA

When the IBM RPA certificate expires, the license will be deactivated with the message "Invalid Certificate". Note that this is different from license expiration, it's the certificate. After some research, we discovered that the certificate has a ...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Add property within the Deployment Environment configuraion properties file to disable data sources

When migrating exisiting configuration to new machines some DB's might needed to be blocked . In our case we have created a duplicate test environemnt for our BAW version so we needed some DB's data sources to be blocked.
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Needs more information