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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 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

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...
10 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Rule Consistency checks within Business Console

In the Enterprise Console it was possible for the rule author to run a rule consistency check against a specific query or from the 'analysis' page. In Business Console there is no such feature.
10 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Execute different parts of the script, skipping some steps of the process

The idea would be to be able to execute different parts of the script, skipping some steps of the process without these steps being processed, that is, we can execute the beginning of the script and jump to the end of it without having to process ...
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Allow asset sharing between BAW and BAA (Business Automation Application)

Customer (Hennepin County) developed BAA apps, including toolkits and templates. They would like to export the BAA artifacts and import them into BAW. Otherwise they will need to recode the same in both BAW and BAA.
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The new AI Button Location

The new AI button location is in the way of the process model. It often sits on top of text and the model needs to be moved in order to see what is behind it. This button would be better if located with the help section of the screen or in the whi...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 5 Planned for future release

Ability to print signed PDFs

CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: The customer wants to print signed documents in the ICN environment. This results in an error message when printing some documents. There is an open APAR for this: IO29232: WHEN TRYING TO PRINT A SIGNED PDF, THE PROCESS ENDS...
over 2 years ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Future consideration

FNCM Operator should automate change of directory bind user in GCD

We're requested to change all passwords every 8-12 weeks, which includes the directory bind user. While an update to the ldapbind secret updates the Liberty authentication part, the GCD directory config is not updated.Proposed approach that could ...
7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Add support for missing Java controls

Some Java applications are not fully supported by the IBM RPA STUDIO recorder today. Elements that we don't have a code-level procedure for preventing the rest of the recorder's interaction with other parts of the application. An example of this...
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow policy based sweeps to trigger Vector Indexing in Content Assistant

Allowing policy based sweeps to trigger vector indexing allows teams to do batch indexing of documents during off hours where Filenet performance is less critical. In living repositories that have documents that should not be indexed by Content As...
10 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Support valueFrom: secretKeyRef / configMapKeyRef env var wiring in the CP4BA CR for data sources, code modules, task services, and ICN plugins.

Use Case The CP4BA operator and its Custom Resource do not allow customers to bind container environment variables to individual keys inside a Kubernetes Secret or ConfigMap using the standard valueFrom: secretKeyRef / configMapKeyRef pattern. Thi...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted