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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

Remove Spring 5 from BAW Advanced (ASAP)

Spring 5 brings known security vulnerabilities and is incompatible with the enterprise architectures of many of our clients. Dependency on Spring (now out of support by the community) should be completely removed or at least a supported version (a...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Ability to add data validation on the simulation query parameters

The customer's business users are heavy users of the the simulation feature. They have simulation configuration with query parameters which accept values for filtering the values of the simulation scenarios. There are times when the business users...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Request to have a List View Functionality in Blueworks Live to have a list view for maps rather than tile view only.

Allow more maps to be viewed in a single screen.
6 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

IBM RPA does not support HTML elements inside a 'shadow-dom'

Today the IBM RPA does not support HTML elements inside a 'shadow-dom' making click, focus, and other commands impossible to work in context within the browser. This feature is important because without the necessary support it is not possible to...
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0

Need to support http for PE server for containers

Right now, this is supported for Websphere/Weblogic only: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/filenet-p8-platform/5.6.0?topic=how-pe-pe-https-workflow-transfer-configuration-changes Want this support for containers as well. I.e. I have to use a custom net...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Feasibility in moving arrows on process diagram

Customer trying to move arrows form one place to another place ( based on business requirement) on process diagram , some time arrows are not moving , or some times when they move arrows diagram is getting messed up. attached screen shots with exa...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Enable Records Managers to update a defined, supported set of record properties across multiple selected records in the IER desktop.

Records Managers frequently need to update the same metadata property (for example, a custom “Hold Explanation” property) across many records as part of daily operational work.Currently, the IER UI allows property editing only for a single selecte...
4 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Ansible module to deploy CP4BA

We have been deploying Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) using the cert-kubernetes package via the cp4a-deployment.sh script. Since certain organizations recommend deploying software using Ansible, we would like to submit this idea for cre...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

FileNet Object Stores and definitions created by a CR Defintion

It would be really good have a FileNet Operator that created object stores and definitions based on a CRD in OpenShift with an appropriate operator. This would also help in the installation process making things far easier to debug.
over 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

Reset the overdue flag upon changing the custom data field without leaving and coming back to the same step

When the custom date field is updated to future date for overdue cases from BAW/Case Manager screen, the overdue flag should reset and recalculate the deadline, without moving the worktime from its current step.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration