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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,

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

Add the ability to store multi-value Attribute data in Enterprise Content Manager

IBM Content Manager has multi-value attributes giving the ability to store more than 1 value in each record/document set of data. This is something we use all the time for our claim documents. Currently we can add the additional values during the ...
over 1 year ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Planned for future release

WfPS integrate with Prometheus for https run time

To elevate application performance monitoring at Morgan Stanley, our Grafana dashboards need HTTPS request metrics. The current WfPS system does not facilitate this, this is creating a critical gap in our ability to proactively identify and resolv...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Limit the size of BPM error objects for SOAP faults

When web service calls are made by BPM applications, the service providers may reply by passing back SOAP faults to indicate error conditions. These SOAP faults are transformed by BPM into tw.systems.error objects which thereby carry the informati...
over 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enhance - Ability to have environment variables per baw server instance scoped

Possible environment variables baw server instance scoped instead of application-scoped, to allow for easier update of external services and others (endpoints, users, password, etc.) If the customer has more than 300 process apps which have a few ...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Additional setting within the audit definition to capture LDAP user access during content retrieval.

Additional setting within the audit definition to capture LDAP user access during content retrieval. It could enhance traceability and compliance for sensitive document access
11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

System Log Logging when making changes using ARSXML

Hi, Certain types of changes with ARSXML (like Folder changes for example) are not logged and viewable in the OnDemand System Log like they are when actioned from the GUI. From the GUI a summary of the folder as it appeared before the change, as w...
8 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Possibility to Separate Glossary

Currently, there is no way to filter out glossary data that originates from draft process flows created in the Training Space. When users create practice or draft process flows for training purposes, any glossary values used within those drafts ar...
about 2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Disable automatic link generation in Blueworks Live processes

The customer (Blueworks Live user) has requested that the automatic creation of hyperlinks between process steps should be turned off.Currently, when a step is added or edited, Blueworks Live automatically generates a clickable link to that step i...
8 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

The option "Require users to save new documents and folders in folders" -> disallow users adding folders to root for P8 ObjectStores

CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY:In the General tab of the ICN desktop configuration, there is the following option:"Require users to save new documents and folders in a folder" The tooltip for which states:"Select this option if you want to require users to...
7 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Under review

Enable “hot reload” of SAP certificates without restarting ICCSAP

Currently, when a SAP certificate is renewed, ICCSAP must be restarted to load the new certificate. This means customers need to plan a maintenance window and ensure the certificate is updated before the old one expires. To reduce this dependency,...
7 months ago in Content Collector for SAP 1 Planned for future release