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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

All ideas

ProcessInstances and UserTaskInstances are two separate root queries, make it possible to combine them into a single unified result using GraphQL

Require a single comprehensive API (facade layer) to streamline workflow integration.
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 1 Functionality already exists

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...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

Add an option for Decision table to execute only first instead of all matching rows

It involves quite some work and sometimes cause confusion (as it depends on the execution mode of the rule task) to implement the requirement to execute first matched row in a Decision Table.It will greately simplify the rule writing if there is a...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Enable configuring jvm_customize_options using secret.

There is a configuration option in the custom resource (ICP4ACluster) called: spec.baw_configuration[].jvm_customize_options / spec.workflow_authoring_configuration.jvm_customize_options. Here you can specify variables for the JVM running baw/bas....
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Would like to have a multi-thread upload for large documents across filenet APIs using GRAPH QL.

Our business users would benefit from it because they sometimes have large documents to upload.
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

Enhancement: Add GUI for GraphQL version 5.6

The previous version 5.5.12 of GraphQL had a GUI. It was much harder to do the install without the GUI, searching for all the values to fill in. Generating and then running each XML file was painful.
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Implement a simple server-to-server single sign on in CP4BA

We have a remote service that uses JWT tokens for authentication, and we need to interact with it while executing a service flow. We need to use the same user that is executing it. We'd like to use the same authorization. We would reuse the JWT to...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

EJB Sessions should be renewable especially when running exposed Human Services.

We would like to be able to renew an EJB Session for a user. Increasing the timeout as described here ‘https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1JR50708' is not possible, as with many users this would increase the heap size unjustified.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enable Runtime Access to Secrets in CP4BA Applications

In the current implementation of CP4BA 24.0.1, while it is possible to create and store secrets securely, there is no built-in mechanism to retrieve these secrets dynamically at runtime from within a BAW application—either from a service flow or J...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to order case variants by maximum duration

When filtering the model by case variants in Process Mining, you may want to check what's the case that showed the max duration in order to narrow down the flow it took during the whole process. This idea is to create the ability to order case var...
8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration