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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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  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

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Zen should have the feature to support Org based authentication

Currently in WAS, we have a feature to authenticate users at BPM using All Authenticated in Application's Realm. This looks up the LDAP repository with the base entry o=<Your Org Name as configured in LDAP> Looks, Zen does not have this feat...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Submitted

Support Custom Secrets in CP4BA & FNCM Standalone

Allowing the mapping of custom secrets into workloads similar to custom_configmaps would better secure sensitive values mapped into deployed instances. Secrets are by default more restricted with default RBAC roles, and there are many offerings to...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

FileNet Content Manager on Containers should allow tracking infrequent users

FNCM terms provide the concept of Infrequent Users, stating "Licensee must track accesses by Infrequent Users to verify that they meet the access limitations of Infrequent Users." In traditional environments, ILMTCollector/ILMTReporter are a means...
13 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Implement a way of automatically copying/moving files in bulk from one RPA environment to another

At the moment , there's not a supported way of automatically copying/moving files in bulk from one environment to another. This can be helpful to make tests before migrating environments.
14 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Implement a way of automatically copying/moving files in bulk from one RPA environment to another

At the moment , there's not a supported way of automatically copying/moving files in bulk from one environment to another. This can be helpful to make tests before migrating environments.
14 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Ability to use cp4a-prerequisites.sh for multiple runtime instances

Deploying multiple runtime instances in single namespace would be a common use case for CPBA - BAW runtime environments. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0.0?topic=cbawrws-optional-configuring-multiple-instances-business...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Option to disable mobile download/sharing/print on IBM Navigator Mobile

This request came from a customer in the public sector industry in which users on navigator mobile application should not be allowed to download content from FileNet to their local storage device. This is considered a security risk for my customer...
about 1 month ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Enable "Attach to Schedule" for Bot Project Schedules

Currently, the "Attach to Schedule" feature only works with legacy script schedules and cannot connect to schedules created in Bot Projects. This forces users to manually use "Attach to Runtime" after bots start running, making debugging less effi...
19 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Make log available in test report

You can log prints in the rules. Simplest form is to use the system glossary's print statement. We have also developed and built log statements. These give valuable information about processing, and are also used extensively when developing and de...
19 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

Support ICN check-in and check-out with ICCSAP

I would like ICN(IBM Content Navigator) check-in and check-out functions to be supported in ICCSAP(Content Collector for SAP Applications). When "Use IBM Content Navigator" is unchecked in the ICCSAP logical archive settings, if a document archive...
20 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted