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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

Create Process Diagrams with AI

It would be a 'game changer' if users are able to auto create BPMN process diagrams in Blueworks by simply attaching process documentation, which details process steps end-to-end. Either through custom or default prompts, it would be highly benefi...
9 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Planned for future release

Error in inactive rules

After installing Decision Center 8.12.0.1.IF011 on a new infrastructure and migrating projects, errors occurred where inactive rules were processed during the rule API execution. This issue had previously occurred after implementing IFIX 8.10.5.1....
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Is a defect

Support for the ability to compare rule flows between versions in Business Console

Since Enterprise Console functionality was removed in ODM 8.11.0, it is no longer to compare rule flows that were previously available. My customer has been using this feature for some time now and would like us to add the ability to compare rule ...
about 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Allow Marking Sets to be added to existing FileNet properties

Hello, We would like IBM FileNet Content Platform Engine to allow administrators to associate a Marking Set with an existing property, and not only when the property is initially created. Today, if a property has already been created without a Mar...
2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Server-Side Validation for Read-Only Case Properties

The read-only setting for case properties in the Case client UI (runtime) is applied only at the view level and does not enforce restrictions at the backend Case Manager REST API level. The CaseManager API and CaseClient plugin service are designe...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Functionality already exists

Online Backup and Restore

Availability of online backup and restore features and capabilities in Cloud Pak for Business Automation
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Future consideration

Allow CP4BA Admins to add a Custom PVC to the BAW Authoring and Runtime

We have deployed CP4BA v25 - BAW in our OpenShift cluster. As of now we are using the file path that is mounted by default (/opt/ibm/bawfile) to store and access BAW application specific configurations. We would like to add additional paths (custo...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Needs more information

Improve edit service configurable temp path

What we can do is to improve for this: Since we can't avoid popping up the 'Save As' window, we can only try to optimize manual settings/steps in option 2 to make the Temp file path configurable for the end user. The current temp folder(C:\Users\#...
almost 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Support JDK 17 with BAMOE 8

Please find the business rationale for “BAM OE v.8.x support for JDK 17 request” as follows. Introduction: We have several critical applications running on IBM BAMOE v8.x. Unfortunately, IBM BAMOE v8 only officially supports OpenJDK versions 8 and...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Future consideration

Ability to monitor the navigator app probes with http port Since ROSA 4.17.15 the GO has been upgraded and enforces stricter cipher policies, and RSA-based ciphers (especially those without forward secrecy) are now blocked by default. That’s why the probes on port 9443 (HTTPS) are failing, and switching to HTTP on 9080 becomes essential to get the operator up.

Ability to monitor the navigator app probes with http port Since ROSA 4.17.15 the GO has been upgraded and enforces stricter cipher policies, and RSA-based ciphers (especially those without forward secrecy) are now blocked by default. That’s why t...
12 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted