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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 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...
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

All ideas

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Add further roles for Role-based redaction in Filenet/ICN

Currently the only options for Role-based redaction are Editor (create and delete) or Viewer. The customer wants to be able to add roles that have the permissions below:Editor Group A: Members are only allowed to create new redactions; but reveali...
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

Creating users, groups and roles by using REST API should not ignore those created in the DC Business Console Administration tab

The DC REST API to retrieve the user roles registry is: GET /v1/repository/users-roles-registryBut in fact it does not retrieve all the users / roles. It only retrieves " the last configuration file that was uploaded". In fact the documentation ev...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

SOAP Web Services Policy set and bindings for inbound and outbound integration should be supported for CP4BA

Traditional Business Automation Workflow (BAW) supports defining policy sets and bindings for both inbound and outbound integrations. A customer who intends to migrate their existing BAW inbound and outbound integration to IBM Cloud Pak for Busine...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM Navigator / Edit Service OIDC Support

Today we are using Edit Service with SAML on Weblogic. We are in the transition to CP4BA and it is the company's rule to implement SSO with OIDC. We are requesting to enhance the Navigator Edit Service to support OIDC for SSO.
5 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Future consideration

IBM dcDesktop client allow page(s) within a document mark for delete showing a red x next to the page. Customer would like the same feature apply at the document level when fixing up the document. Same customer as in IDEAAPP-I-112 requesting similar interface enhancment.

When batch is in fix-up using dcDestkop the batch tree will show the batch structure. Customer would like to be able to mark the document for delete instead of one page at a time within the document. Currently if you mark the page for delete a red...
about 2 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Under review

Incorporate the Vision selector to setValue so that they can automate directly from the "getVault" to a webpage without field selectors

A customer cannot directly pass a value from "getValut" to a web page that doesn't have any field selectors or element ID
10 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Increase character Limit for USER_NAME value in lsw_user_xref table to 113

Microsoft AD UPN has a character limit of 113 and IBM BAW lsw_usr_xref table has character limit of 64 characters. usernames with characters more than 64 cannot be properly configured on IBM BAW. An increase in char Limit to 113 as Active director...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

To be able to tag other Blueworks users when you add a comment to a process diagram.

All users would benefit from being informed that there is a comment for their attention, because presently the comments are not always picked up by the required users immediately. This could work by allowing the commentator to tag the required Blu...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Governance: Only one single notification is send for trigger via Governance app, incase of no action by users. There is no option to send reminder notification or escalation.

Multiple reminders and escalation to be triggered incase of no action being taken for open process app tasks.
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Governance: Process App reporting option to be created & user with edit rights to space should have visibility to task and reports for assigned space.

Governance: Process App reporting option to be created & user with edit rights to space should have visibility to task and reports for assigned space.
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration