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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 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

Change ephemeral storage usage to generic ephemeral volumes

The current usage of ephemeral storage (via {emptyDir} in deployment manifests can cause problems for bigger shared Openshift/Kubernetes environments, since the storage is allocated on the node storage, which can lead to pod eviction in case of un...
almost 2 years ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Under review

Add support for PING Directory Server as a LDAP Directory Server for our traditional WebSphere FileNet implementation.

Our current implementation uses VMM. We would like to be able to configure PING as a Native Directory Server in ACCE. Our target state is Containerised FileNet which does not support VMM. This request will simplify the transition to target state. ...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 5 Functionality already exists

Restrict Developer(Users) in tw_authors from seeing all users when trying to re-assign the task in inspector

The Developer can now see "all" users in the dropdown when trying to re-assign the task in inspector. On on-prem he only sees the users that is part of the team. Initially user cannot see members but when we change the settingsset that to false fo...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

More granulated control for e-mail notifications

Currently, it is only possible to enable or disable in the Workplace profile the option to receive e-mail notifications when a task is assigned. When a user start a process and the first task is assigned to the user or a launch UI is associated wi...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Execution via runtime with total admin privileges (runtime)

Essa ideia surgiu a cerca de 1 ano, mediante a necessidade de que nos deparamos com nossos clientes em que um programa, usando por um robô, é executado em seu processo somente com os privilégios total ativado(Modo Administrador). Em testes com a e...
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

AD LDS support

for BAW deployment it seems that Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service is not officially supported while AD DS is. We need support also for AD LDS for installing BAW in italian police ai project.
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Submitted

Enhancement Request: Datacap Support Microsoft Graph App-Only Authentication for Office 365 Email Ingestion Using Client Secret or Certificate-Based Credentials

Customer security teams are increasingly restricting or prohibiting username and password-based authentication for application integrations. Many organizations now require vendors to support modern Microsoft Entra ID authentication patterns, inclu...
4 months ago in Datacap 1 Under review

we use Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes on top of our RHOCP environment, and we're looking for an alternative to netcat which is used in the liveness probes by Kafka in BAI functionality

To summarize our observations and the joint session findings: The Zookeeper container includes the Netcat binary, and it actively uses Netcat to discover other Zookeeper pods during startup. ACS detects this behavior and kills the pod, which preve...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Under review

CMOD REST - Adjust HTTP Status Codes on server error

Right now, it appears that if CMOD REST encounters a server-side failure with the CMOD System, the REST API returns a 400 BAD_REQUEST response. However, a CMOD server-side failure should be categorized as a server error (5xx), not a client error (...
4 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

Handle and display compoud documents (Parent-child-connection)

At the moment, the handling of compound documents in the IBM Content Navigator via Cloud Pak for Business Automation is not very convenient and continuously in the IBM Content Navigator. The display as well isn't that useful. In the attached docum...
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 2 Future consideration