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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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

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

IBM Content Collector FIPS 140-3 Compliance

  Good Afternoon, The client has mandated that all software products and their associated components be compliant with FIPS 140-3 standards. Support case TS022799550 was previously opened to determine whether ICC is FIPS 140-3 compliant. Base...
20 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Get rid of pod/exec permission required for FNCM Oprator to install CPE in a containerized environment.

Get rid of pod/exec permission requirement during Filenet/Content Cortex operator install. Change approach moving to installation jobs, and at the same time avoid operator post-install reconcile to require pod/exec permissions.
8 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Browse/Search feature - Enable the sort on document/folder class name

Hi, to check the case follow the scenario : - From ICN admin console Opened Repositories --> Browse --> Choose "Class" from the available properties - Open the ICN browse features, navigator to a folder containing documents and the Class col...
about 1 month ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

Modernize IBM Content Collector for Email with Native Microsoft Graph API Integration for Exchange Online

As organizations continue to accelerate their cloud transformation initiatives, Microsoft Exchange Online has become the preferred messaging platform for many enterprise customers. To further strengthen IBM Content Collector for Email as a strateg...
9 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Enhance IBM Content Collector for Email to Support Extraction and Archiving of Attached EML and MSG Files

IBM Content Collector for Email is widely used in enterprise environments to archive business-critical email content into IBM FileNet. However, many organizations frequently encounter scenarios where emails contain attached email files in EML or M...
9 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Provide Object Store Mapping Support During Deployment of Promoted Legacy Case Solutions from Workflow Center to Connected Workflow Servers

IBM Business Automation Workflow supports deployment of promoted legacy Case solutions from Workflow Center to connected Workflow Servers. During deployment, users can choose whether to install the snapshot; however, there is currently no option t...
26 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Submitted

Support for nested projects in Rule Designer

There are issues regarding nested projects with the following workspace layout: /workspace -> Eclipse/Rule Designer workspace /parent -> Parent project /ruleproject -> Main rule project When existing projects (parent) are imported from a ...
18 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Content Cortex should support Azure Key Vault as Secrets Management Option

I've been happy to see that we've now also delivered External secret management for CCx on container platforms, However, currently the support is limited to Hashicorp . For clients using Azure Kubernetes Service as deployment platform, Azure Key V...
about 1 month ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Getting Compressed Version of a document

When a customer needs to distribute costs of maintaining the FileNet environment to the users making use of the environment, one model is to invoice users by the amount of storage they require on the environment. With document compression, a reali...
11 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

BAW CI/CD support to other Git hosts (e.g., Bitbucket and GitLab)

product support for BAW CI/CD support to other Git hosts (e.g., Bitbucket and GitLab)
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration