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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

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Enable Support for Hashicorp on CP4BA to Store Secrets

ODM on CP4BA diverges from the RBC standards with respect to storing “secrets” such as credentials. The OpenShift preference is to manage this with a component called Hashicorp Vault. ODM on Kubernetes alrady supports this but CP4BA does not. We r...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Planned for future release

Allow use of Postgres or other lightweight development database with IID/UTE for BAW

This would speed up the development process so that BAW developers would not need to rely on their system administration team to install local DB2 on each workstation for a local development database. Postgres would be a popular choice but any lig...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Provide user-centric API which can show "direct" memberships to BPM "groups"

We want to be able to provision some new users who will have the same authority and visibility as some existing users.We are currently relying on a SQL query provided by our IBM Support Engineer, and are aware this isn't a "supported" technique be...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

In case of multipage PDFs, the new action allows us to define which pages will be OCR’ed and analyzed by Datacap. Same as action SplitTIFFPageRange for Tiff-Files.

If a MultipagePDF includes 100 pages all of them will be extracted. We just need the first page the process will take minutes until all pages are extracted in a time critical process (1 Batch in less than 15 sec.). that is not exactable. The actio...
10 months ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Fix Column sequence mismatch issue in Decision Runner generated spreadsheet report

We have introduced multi-column in the scenario sheet to handle input JSON request of size > 32K characters. 32K is the cell size limitation.But the columns in Decision Runner generated report spreadsheet get jumbled up. The column sequence is ...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Is a defect

Keycloak Logout Redirect to DC/RES

Useful in usability of the product as users would need to bookmark the DC/RES pages or else it is not accessible to the login page after clicking logout. This behavior should be similar to the logout using basic auth. The DC/RES ODM team need to i...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Planned for future release

Filenet & Azure Blob storage integration

As of now, FileNet and Azure Blob can be configured together only using shared key. However, due to known risks and issues shared key access is disabled in some organizations. Alternative way of making this connection (e.g. using Azure Active Dire...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 3 Under review

Enabling Stage names translation in Case Client of IBM BAW

Localizing the stages name into a different locale (for eg, Arabic) is currently not possible in IBM BAW. Even tying to localize the stage names using custom string approach ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/24.x?topic=applications-translating-cus...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Is a defect

Modify Content Navigator Admin desktop so that there is an option NOT to use SSO

Any organization that implements SSO for Content Navigator would benefit
6 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

Implement a simple server-to-server single sign on in CP4BA

We have a remote service that uses JWT tokens for authentication, and we need to interact with it while executing a service flow. We need to use the same user that is executing it. We'd like to use the same authorization. We would reuse the JWT to...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review