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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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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...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

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.
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Process mining - possibility to download the model in jpg or png format (reference model superimposed on the actual model)

It should be possible to download the process model in jpg or png format (this refers to the process model in which the reference model is superimposed on the actual model)
4 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Future consideration

Ability to Define a Default Workplace Task List View with Custom Columns for All Users

In IBM BAW Workplace https://x.x.x.x:xxxx/Workplace, custom business data properties (for example: Branch, Approval Decision, Account Number) can be exposed as task properties and added as columns in the Tasks view. While these custom columns work...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

End point can link to an activity in different map/process

This case is very useful when there is continued activities in another map/process instead of end the process. Users need to continue the activities by following the another map (Not from start but the second or third activity in a new map). When ...
4 months ago in Blueworks Live Future consideration

Process Versioning in BAMOE 9.3

Considering a scenario where I have a long-running process workflow, such as "hiring," with active process instances. Then, if I create another version, "hiring1," how do I handle the client code from which I need to trigger the REST API's, consid...
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Future consideration

Enhance Case Client “Create Package” export to derive file extensions from MIME type

Environment Product: IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) Version: 21.0.x Platform: IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) Deployment: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) 4.16 Component: Case Client / Case Package expor...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Disabling PVC checks in Workflow-operator

IBM Team, Workflow operator pod (which I believe unlike the content-operator) automatically checks for the PVC size, and If any configuration added under baw_configuration section it won't be picked up because of the following error: "PersistentVo...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

BAMOE Monitoring and Observability data

Hi Team, Currently BAMOE 9.2.1 doesn't provide any dashboard to view the BAMOE observability and monitoring data. It only provides a graphQL endpoints which we have to custom utilize for all the requirements. We need an interface/Dashboard for the...
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x Future consideration