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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:

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...

All ideas

Support for POSTGRESQL

We currently deploy CMOD on AIX and do not have the ability to use POSTGRESQL as database. POSTGRESQL is our db of choice moving forward.
10 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

Datacap support for AWS Db2 RDS

Standard Bank has a Cloud Strategy and a supported deployment pattern for use of AWS Db2 RDS , the other solutions in the Cloud Pak support a Db2 RDS Deployment but Datacap does not, it would be beneficial to align Datacap to what is available for...
3 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Future consideration

Open Outlook emails archived in FileNEt using the Content Navigator

With the Content Navigator, you can preview or download an Outlook email archived in FileNet.But when you click to open the document, it doesn't open it in any viewer; it only gives you the option to download it.This feature was available in previ...
3 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Native S3 and Azure Blob Storage Support for ICC File System Collector

IBM Content Collector (ICC) for File Systems currently supports NTFS, ReFS, DFS, and Novell file systems as source types. There is no native connector or documented support for ingesting content from AWS S3 or Azure Blob storage. Enterprise custom...
6 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Future consideration

The possibility of deleting disable schedules

In the WebClient, a user could delete disabled schedules, because why keep a really old and obsolete schedule, if he can delete, will be good to make the client leaner.
over 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement "external integration" to Snowflake, S3, SAP etc

Many customers are seeking external integration in RPA. External integration means having execution invocation, execution result, error handling and termination as components, etc. We need to see the external integration to S3, Snowflake, SAP etc...
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Derived property - precalculated transient property

It should be possible to define a transient property in the datamodel which value is calculated (using Java/JS) whenever it is read. (either via query, via fetch instance, ...) Partially it can be implemented using "custom search function", but it...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Adding comments to a recording

As part of our analyses, we examine complex business processes characterized by a large number of variations and the occurrence of non-standard scenarios. Therefore, a key element of the analysis is the observations and comments of those directly ...
3 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Change the need for matching SQL ID and Schema Name in SQL Server

As per the CP4BA documentation, “the default schema name that is associated with a user must be the same as the username” (Reference: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/25.0.0?topic=scripts-creating-sql-server-database). We a...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Proactive Queue(DefEventDestination) Depth Monitoring and Early Warning for CP4BA-BAW in liberty logs

After enabling BAI in a CP4BA production environment, we experienced a production outage due to a backend JMS queue reaching its maximum configured depth (50,000 messages). Once the limit was reached, event processing stalled, impacting business w...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted