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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 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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Gitops approach for installation/upgrades using ArgoCD

Customers like Swiss Federal Office for Information and Telecomunication are using exclusively gitops approach to install and upgrade containerized applications on Openshift.CP4BA and its underlaying CPFS are relying on scripts which are doing a b...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Not under consideration

Search through code in application

The product would be greatly enhanced by having a simple search-option, to find where specific code is used. Would also be great if it supported RegEx. It would be plenty enough if it was usable to find code in Javascript/InputOutput bindings, and...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

AI Enhancements - BPMN guidance

Provide guidance on BPMN best practices in blueprints
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

IBM CMOD REST API support varies application servers

I have an idea for the IBM CMOD REST API to support and be compatible with various application servers. Currently, the CMOD REST API only supports WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Liberty. However, many customers maintain a vendor list f...
12 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Include additional info about service task execution in data-index and data-audit

The customer requests to store the inputs and outputs of service task execution in the BAMOE database (both the data index and the data audit) in order to use this information in customised interfaces for auditing/monitoring and tracking purposes.
2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Planned for future release

In Cloud pak for business automation, We need to update the certs in the odm_configuration.customization.trusted_certificate_list with a managed restart of the ODM Pods

At the moment, when we change the certificate we have all pods restarting at the same time. This is causing a huge business impact and requires downtime which is not planned. This would benefit anyone looking to change certificates due to underlyi...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Remove Document from Content Assistant AI Index Through API

Over time documents won't be in scope for your Content Assistant use case but there isn't a good way to remove them from the AI Index. If you could create a sweep and call an API to remove documents from the index that would be a good enhancement....
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Add Page Number to Content Assistant Java API and GraphQL

Issue: When using the Content Assistant Java API and GraphQL in the response you don't get the page number for the document chucks that are returned. Not having a page number available means the end user has to open the document and do a find whic...
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Content Assistant Feedback API Needed When Using Java API and GraphQL

Issue: When users are using Content Assistant through Navigator they can provide feedback (thumbs up, thumbs down and a comment) on the response of the chat feature. When using the APIs to integrate Content Assistant with a customer portal when yo...
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Provide Out of Box Customization Option for Email Template(from Portal)

This is a useful feature to be considered where developers/admins can configure the default process portal email notification template by customizing - HTML content Process variables including exposed business data
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration