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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

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IM/Zen support for authentication/authorization with OIDC+LDAP

CPFS Support for OIDC+LDAP ( to support CP4BA migration use cases) Description: The main request is about support for OIDC+LDAP in IM, but this RFE has in fact a much broader scope.It also includes requests for:improvements to the IM UI, to make i...

Task Mining events ordering

I see the TM events are ordered by frequency. Customer sees as logical to be able to to sort them by timestamp to by able to classify/tag the occurred events as they appeared during TM recording.
over 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Future consideration

Ability to Archive Project

We are looking for a way to archive a rules project that is no longer in use so that we still have access to the change history, but so that it is no longer update-able, or executable, and we are no longer including that project in our artifact co...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Not under consideration

Enabling Task Routes should execute on schedule without restarting services

Today, when a task route needs to be modified, the recommended approach by IBM is to restart services. This requires an elevated service account to perform this action and cost time. However, it has been proven in testing that we can modify a task...
about 2 years ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Not under consideration

Able to remove filters from process page in dashboard page

Complicated rules on which filters can apply where - eg. Across to the dashboard We must go back and forward to apply filters in process and dashboard rather than being able to remove them in dashboard if they were set in process
about 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Planned for future release

More dashboard elements allowed

Currently only 8 dashboard elements are allowed we should be able to have more like our competitors do
about 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Functionality already exists

Business Object usage in Navigator

The backend (FileNet CE) allows the definition of custom objects that can be added as multivalued properties on a document class. However, this kind of document properties is not supported by ICN. The support of this custom object properties must ...
about 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Function to automatically perform “Refresh snapshot to parent” in background

Customer uses “Refresh snapshot to parent” function to reflect updates in parent processes. Since customer needs to frequently perform “Refresh snapshot to parent” on the production, customer wants to automatically perform it in background.
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Process - Clear data

After development and testing could have a button to clear all data of process, to go into production with no values
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

AWS S3 Bucket with Object Lock and in Compliance Mode connected as a Fixed Content Device Storage to CPE, map CPE Indefinite Retention to AWS S3 Legal Hold Flag

Currently indefinite is not allowed or supported from CPE to AWS S3, the CPE value of 9999-12-20 12AM UTC is sent to S3 and S3 complains that the date value is not allowed as S3 has a maximum value of 100 years in the future for retention date. In...
4 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration