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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

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Upgrade RRProcessor.exe as a 64-bit process

Currently, RRProcessor.exe runs as a 32-bit process, which limits the usable memory to 4GB. The process occasionally encounters out-of-memory errors and terminates unexpectedly. This issue stems from the inherent 4GB memory limit of 32-bit processes.
9 months ago in Datacap 3 Future consideration

Add an Owner attribute to Blueworks Live workspaces, visible in the UI and accessible via API.

User unable to see or set an Owner field when opening a workspace (specific Workspace) or through any API.
about 2 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Planned for future release

Automate the cleanup of the console and messages logs created under the podname directories

Logs are created in /opt/ibm/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/logs for each pod. As pods are shutdown and restarted during kubernetes maintenance or other work, additional log directories are created, leaving the old directories in place. This requir...
about 1 month ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Task mining - allowed applications and webpages (the ability to create and save a set)

When adding applications and websites (allowed list), there should be an option to save a given set of applications and websites (e.g., Set 1 = Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint). This solution is very important because with a larger number of user...
about 1 month ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2 Functionality already exists

Enhance Case Client “Create Package” export to derive file extensions from MIME type

Environment Product: IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) Version: 21.0.x Platform: IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) Deployment: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) 4.16 Component: Case Client / Case Package expor...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Seggregate data per role/user

We are working on a project that has data from a very large organization (300+ teams, 3.000+ people) which has a hierarchy and we would like to be able to seggregate the data that each person/group can see using 1 project. We would like to be able...
6 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Support CM8 8.7.x with Oracle As A Service (OraaS)

CM8 requires the Library server to be installed on the database server. This is not possible when using Oracle As A Service because nothing can be installed next to the database service.
20 days ago in Content Manager (CM8) 0 Under review

Add en_GB to the default list of locales in the Business Console

Currently en_GB is supported in Rule Designer: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/odm/9.5.0?topic=designer-opening-rule-in-specific-locale However, this is not a language that is available by default in the pre-set languages of BC: https://www.ibm.com/do...
20 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Is a defect

Enable Bearer Token Authentication for FileNet Deployment Manager in an LDAP-less environment

We request that Bearer Token Authentication be enabled for FileNet Deployment Manager. This functionality already exists when authenticating with a custom Java API (jace.jar) client application. Please include this authentication method for FileNe...
11 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

in Workflow capability it is not possible to update the value of an XMLElement variable of a tasks using the Process Inspector or the REST APIs.

If you create a private variable of a task of kind XMLElement and you want to change its value from the process inspector or usingn the REST APIs, you simply get an error. The impossibility to change those variable it is preventing the correction ...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted