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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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FileNet FDM Limitation When Discovering Security Principals using SCIM

IBM ECM Team, FileNet Content Manager with SCIM configuration in CP4BA successfully returns all users and groups without any issues. However, when performing the same discovery through FDM, only 500 security principal entries are returned, instead...
2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Option to disable Warnings for empty conditions on DT during deployment

During deployment, lots of warnings are displayed on deployment report: There is a warning "col: 4, line: 1: The Otherwise condition inverses a large number of conditions. Performance might be impacted." Which is expected if there are more than 50...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

ECM Doc store: Zipping(compress) and Downloading Multiple PDFs in CPFBA Workflow

When there are multiple pdfs listed in the doc list, make an option availble to download them all as a single zip file.
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

DATACAP - ICN - DatePicker should keep its value even if a Data Preparation Task Profile is executed.

It could be great that, on a scan panel, the date picker keeps its value (the current day) when any Data Preparation Task Profile is executed.At the moment, the Date Picker looses its data as soon as a Data Preparation Task Profile is executed so ...
about 1 year ago in Datacap 1 Needs more information

Openshift 5.5.12 FNCM deployment of FileNet...the CR file has no provisions for modifying number of replicas

Right now, if you were to choose a Medium or Large deployment in the CR, you get a maximum of 2 pods for like CPE: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/filenet-p8-platform/5.5.12?topic=deployment-system-requirements Is this adequate? Especially for a large...
11 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Submitted

We are migrating from Websphere-->OPC containers. For CMIS, the endpoint has changed from /openfncmis to /openfncmis_wlp

We have many webservices applications written using the /openfmcis endpoint. Now we have to re-write the connections for our apps to this new /openfmcis_wlp endpoint. This is unnecessary work for us, especially when we do the switch from tWAS->...
11 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Avoid accidental disabling of Process Engine Workflow System

At a customer environment, an administrator had accidentally disabled the Process Engine Workflow system in ACCE. Enabling / Disabling Workflow System, and Enabling / Disabling Workflow System Traces are on the same dialog, at the same location, j...
7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Allow the /v1/DBAdmin/{id}/wipe tool to also handles Test Suite attribute used to store the excel file

Currently, we can wipe information from element versions to remove Personally Identifiable Information from history records but this tool is limited to the following: brm.Definition.body brm.ProjectElement.documentation versionComment However, the...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Rule match (decision) explainability

Provide the ability to output details from a rule match of the rule definitions, conditions and the corresponding values associated with the rule match outcome - in order to help explain why a particular business rule matched. This rule match outp...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0

Datacap Navigator under verfiy screen interface does not display the full file path of the document selected for upload. Which makes it difficult to confirm the source location of the document.

Enhance the Verify UI to include the complete file path of the browsed document. This will allow users to verify the origin of the file before submitting the batch, ensuring accuracy and reducing errors caused by selecting files from incorrect dir...
5 months ago in Datacap 2 Not under consideration