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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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Update Security Folder when a document is moved in Navigator

We have a document entry template for Navigator that has the option to inherit from folder set. When the document is added, this works fine. If a new folder is created and the document moved, the document retains the old folder as the security par...
12 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Enable fetching of oidc access_token from zen/foundational services to use for authenticating downstream services.

It is useful because it would enable us to authentienticate downstream services (BAW external services) with access_token generated from OIDC flow (and ideally compatible with this: Invoking CP4BA APIs using custom authentication tokens). From BAW...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Bai event format configuration to have the processAppAcronym in the messages in IBM Business Automation Workflow

We would like to have the processAppAcronym in the messages in the future. Either as a default value or configurable to configure the events to contain the "processAppAcronym" - a short unique identifier for a processApp. We need it to distribute ...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Preferred login/skip_pref_login=true issue

The skip_pref_login parameter is currently functioning as expected. However, the login flow could be improved so that the skip flag persists until the user successfully logs in or explicitly navigates away.
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Submitted

Have a configurable “Service unavailable” page for CP4BA components, which are currently unavailable, instead of the “Bad Gateway” error page.

Please find the detailed description of the scenario which we encountered recently. Business Justification: The “Bad Gateway” page does not provide users with meaningful information when a service is unavailable. A customized “Service Unavailable”...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

FileNet CFS should support federation of FileNet Domains on Containers

Currently, federating multiple FileNet Domains requires CFS-ICI (Content Federation Services with IBM Content Integrator), which the latter not being ported to container platforms, according to Current Limitations on Containers documentation https...
4 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 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...
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Remove Document from Content Assistant AI Index Through API

Over time documents won't be in scope for your Content Assistant use case but there isn't a good way to remove them from the AI Index. If you could create a sweep and call an API to remove documents from the index that would be a good enhancement....
7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Add Page Number to Content Assistant Java API and GraphQL

Issue: When using the Content Assistant Java API and GraphQL in the response you don't get the page number for the document chucks that are returned. Not having a page number available means the end user has to open the document and do a find whic...
7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Content Assistant Feedback API Needed When Using Java API and GraphQL

Issue: When users are using Content Assistant through Navigator they can provide feedback (thumbs up, thumbs down and a comment) on the response of the chat feature. When using the APIs to integrate Content Assistant with a customer portal when yo...
7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted