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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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Process Diagramm on iPad

I want to use the process diagramm website on iPad.But this is not supported but our customers needs this.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

The path for the private key of a computer should be configurable for each computer instead of being the same for every computer in the tenant.

Right now, we can configure only one path for the whole tenant. That means that every computer in the tenant needs to have the private key in the same path, even though they are different computers in different folders. Most people just pick a fol...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

TLS support for cloudctl tool to connect to internal repository in Airgap environment

Enable TLS support for cloudctl tool to connect to TLS based internal repository in Airgap environment Per Cloud Pak for Business Automation documentation, "Installing the IBM operator catalog" in Airgap environment requires the usage of the cloud...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Not under consideration

Oauth Tokens Change Every Hour: BPM Needs to Update a Variable Hourly for Use by All BPMN Instances

How can we store an OAuth token in the BPM equivalent of a global variable? We use this token in order to connect to our micro service layer, and we are exhausting our Rest endpoint that generates the token because every instance is generating a t...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

HPE/Scality RING storage support with FileNet Image Services

HPE/Scality RING storage support with FileNet Image Services Case number: TS006578461 FileNet Image Services (current version) on Solaris 11 with a remote Oracle 19c database We are planning to migrate a storage platform for the FileNet/P...
over 3 years ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Not under consideration

CP4A Support for GKE

Hi, Can you please introduce support for GKE. Thank you.
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Cover Task completed time on The Gantt Chart in Process Instance view

The Gantt Chart in Process Instance view does not cover thecompleted time even if the task is completed.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Provide a preference that hides the left sidebar and keeps it hidden unless the preference is changed

We would like a preference setting in a user's profile that allows them to hide the left sidebar unless the setting is changed.
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Combine init () and readWsdl() functions on outbound call, using integration service

I have attached a screenshot of what happens whenever an outbound service call is made within BPM, using the integration service. We have the yellow highlighted which take upto 700ms each; the actual invoke takes ~80ms - the wsdl has more than 35 ...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

DataBase Encryption for BPM on premise

BPM proprietary databases need to be encrypted.
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration