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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,

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  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...

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AI-Powered Process Optimization

Integrate AI and machine learning algorithms to analyze process data and suggest optimizations. This could help in identifying bottlenecks, predicting outcomes, and recommending improvements.
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Ablity to add the additional headers as an optional for the advance storage area for the S3 storage class

provisioning the ability for users to add the optional headers to specify a storage class in the x-amz-storage-class header either by jvm parameters or option s3 bucket configuration fields It will help lot of customers to reduce the transition co...
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

ODWek: Duplicate ODServer objects

ODServer initialization is an expensive operation. ODFolder initialization from that ODServer is also expensive. However, connection pooling is a recommended best practice when utilizing ODWek. What if we could initialize a single/few ODServer obj...
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 4 Not under consideration

Make the administrative functions web-enabled

Content Collector (ICC) currently requires administrators or operations specialists to remote desktop directly to the servers to create/update/execute task routes and to gather logs. If the administrative interface was web-enabled, this would redu...
over 1 year ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Planned for future release

Calico Network Policy creation in BAW on Containers

Customer: Discover Financial Services Product: Business Automation Workflow on Containers version : 22.x onwards BAW on Container product creates default kubernetes network policy not the calico network policy, Discover Financial Services Design p...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Cyberark JDBC Connector enhancement

The Cyberark Credential Mapper connector would allow us to automate password rotation for all of our jdbc connections in Filenet. See the following article: Credential Mapper for WebSphere Classic: https://docs.cyberark.com/AAM-CP/Latest/en/Conten...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Please add EPV and ENV binding options in CV

Please add (next to "Business Data", "Configuration Options" and "Localization Resources") ability to bind EPVs and ENVs in "Variables Declarations" in "Variables" in Coach View designer. You already have "Exposed Process Variables" and "Environme...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Separate Case Deployments from Infrastructure/Product Deployments strictly

When deploying Case Manager artefacts, the approach in 23.0.2 is inconsistent: While most deployment activities can be done using the case swagger API https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/23.x?topic=solutions-case-swagger-apis There are 3 deployment ac...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Migrate from MSMQ to IBM MQ system queue provider in IBM RPA

In situations where MSMQ does not fit the organizational needs in terms of package availability or network complexity, there's the need to use IBM MQ as the IBM RPA system queue provider to work with schedules and processes. Currently, this operat...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

ODM Container - Addition of Kerberos configuration to IBM Helm chart for Oracle Database connectivity

Hi, Our Oracle Database is fully kerberized and we need Kerberos authentication to be added to ODM version 8.11.1.0 and Helm - 22.2.0 For configuring kerberos, we need to pass the following file which are available in our organization: krb_config:...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration