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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 auto fill metadata's from AI generated Blueprints

With the recent enhancement, AI can generate Blueprints from images and text. However, during blueprint generation, the AI is automatically populating activity-level metadata such as Cycle Time, Cost, Risk, and other attributes. These are sensitiv...
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 2

Datacap to support DB2 RDS to allign with CP4BA

IBM Datacap currently does not support IBM Db2 deployed on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) as a backend database. Other components within the IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) portfolio already support Db2 on Amazon RDS...
2 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Under review

Provide the feature to compare two snapshots for CP4BA

We only have the compare snapshots functionality on Process Center console (classic Workflow Center console) for BAW on premise, but customer does want to have the feature in CP4BA as well, that can help customer to check the exact code changes be...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Allow CPD app url to be embedded in the other Web app through iframe

We have internal web application which embeds the CPD ICN URL in their app within iframe. When accessing the icn url the iframe is blocking the cpd url which is enabled with SSO.It is understood that blocking happens due to Content-Security-Policy...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Implement a Custom NFS / PVC Mount (/ecmconfig) - for cpe-deploy and navigator deploy configuration files

As we move to CP4BA, our Team needs to deploy ICN plugin and Code Module Configuration files in CP4BA Navigator and CPE Deploy pods. The purpose of this request is to attain support for WestPac to create a Custom PVC / NFS share (/ecmconfig) for s...
7 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Update BAMOE 8.x.x to use EAP 8.x.x

The goal is to update IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions (BAMOE) version 8.x.x to be compatible with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) version 8.x.x. Known issues in timer management: Issues have been identified in timer manag...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Future 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...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Provide an option to exclude unused rule flows during rule app archive generation. Currently system supports rule-level filtering through query parameters (e.g., status and tags), similar filtering capabilities are not extended to rule flows, leading to the inclusion of redundant artifacts in the archive.

In the current application, certain rule flows are maintained in Decision Center exclusively for testing purposes, and there is a need to exclude these non-production flows during deployment to the Decision Server. While the platform currently sup...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Create button for group sync

As today we have a button on the UI for users sync but need to access swagger and run the group sync through api. It would be easier and intuitive to have this api displayed as buttons on the UI.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Future consideration

Prevent Users from Modifying CMIS Queries in ECM Document List in IBM BAW

The ECM Document List component in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) dynamically generates CMIS queries to retrieve authorized case documents from IBM Content Platform Engine (CPE). However, penetration testing has revealed that users can int...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration