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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 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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Capture Re-Assignment Events

The system needs to capture and emit events on task reassignment. This needs to capture both who did the re-assignment and to whom they reassigned the task to.
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Need Content Manager OnDemand to support IMDSV2

AWS and security guidelines are pushing for IMDSv2 to improve the security posture and prevent credential exfiltration and information leakage through SSRF. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/configuring-instance-metadata-service....
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Delivered

Use of LDAP groups for IBM Content Navigator Administrators

We currently use LDAP groups to manage permissions in all CP4BA components, but ICN only offers the ability to add user IDs as administrators, not LDAP groups. In order to have a consistent approach for managing permissions for administrators in C...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 2 Delivered

Audit Trail for BPM Process Admin

Due to statutory requirement, we are required to keep the audit trail of all activities performed by any administrators / users in the Process Admin console, including Date/Time, Host IP, User ID, Property / Item on which action performed, Action ...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

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
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Delivered

CP4BA 22.0.2 (FCN 5.5.10) on Containers implemented readOnlyRootFilesystem, there are some cases where this feature should be able to be disabled

We have a customer that uses Dynatrace OneAgent that does code insertions on pods to install its agent. This was preventing FileNet Operator from being able to bring up application pods on an AWS EKS cluster due to the readOnlyRootFilesystem.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Delivered

CRTINSTOND must work when CRTLIB or other CL commands are restricted

On some IBMi systems, customers restrict *PUBLIC to *EXCLUDE . This causes some CMOD for i functions to fail - like CRTINSTOND will not succeed if CRTLIB has *PUBLIC set to *EXCLUDE
2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Delivered

IBM BPM Audit Trial

IBM BPM such a robust system should come with the audit trial feature, whereby it should able to capture the login / logout and activities performed by users.
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

Access to Shared Mail Folders

The command Apply Search Folder should include functionality to work with shared mail folders. For now, there's only an option to access public folders. For Example, if I count the emails after using the apply Search Filter command to search th...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Permission to delete or hide all types of dashboards including the Dashboards "Monitoring" and "Daily Monitoring"

It would be nice to have the option to hide or exclude the standard TENANT dashboards ("Monitoring" and "Daily Monitoring") since in some cases the user, when activate the loop presentation mode, would have to be forced to see these 2 dashboards i...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered