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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 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

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Additional setting within the audit definition to capture LDAP user access during content retrieval.

Additional setting within the audit definition to capture LDAP user access during content retrieval. It could enhance traceability and compliance for sensitive document access
about 1 month ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Option to indicate inline or not inline variable output for decision service

New feature/option to allow a developer to indicate whether variable output for a decision service should be inline or not inline. The option would allow the output to include the original wrapper object.
7 days ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Under review

Cross-Project Search Capability

We would like to see a cross-project search capability in ADS. This capability would allow us to search across all projects to determine where an element is used/set. Right now, the search capability is limited to searching within a project.
7 days ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Under review

Option to customize the user context menu in decision tables

Since version 9 or 9.5, the 'Hidden' and 'Table Properties' options have been available to rules managers. Considering our usage of the tool, we would like to be able to modify the context menu from the business console in order to remove them. In...
7 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Cloudpak wfpsruntime pod doesn't print postgres DB endpoint in the liberty logs

Our application, CloudPak WFPS, connects to a Postgres HADR database, but the database endpoint is not appearing in the logs. This makes it difficult to confirm whether the WFPSRuntime pods have successfully connected to the Postgres database. In ...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Submitted

Task mining - audit - additional info (Start time)

In the audit tab, in addition to the specified upload time (end of recording), the start time (start of recording) should also be included.
3 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Include updated OIT version when they implement this Enhancement: "Enh 26048204 - Java API equivalent to SCCOPT_NUMBERFORMAT"

CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: In ICN, when you "Download as PDF" a excel file with German formatted date fields, in the generated pdf file the date format is in US format. In other words DD/MM/YYYY becomes MM/DD/YYYY. 02/08/2024 (August 2nd) is converted...
8 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

Online Backup of CP4BA deployment

Currently we cannot perform online backup in CP4BA, We have Fusion recipes but those are not taking complete backup of the CP4BA namespace. It will be great if online backup of CP4BA namespace can be made possible. The online backup tool for Cp4BA...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Future consideration

Configuration option to default filter to "All Types" in Decision Center

I'm reaching out regarding the filter settings in Decision Center. Currently, the filter is persisted for each user, but there's no option to default it to "All Types" for all users or branches. Could you please consider adding a feature to allow ...
5 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Task mining - obfuscation - data analysis info (additional description)

In order to make the application more intuitive, the icon marked in red (data analysis info) should be described without having to hover over it with the cursor (e.g. in the same way as the date range is presented)
2 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration