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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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

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

Avoid accidental disabling of Process Engine Workflow System

At a customer environment, an administrator had accidentally disabled the Process Engine Workflow system in ACCE. Enabling / Disabling Workflow System, and Enabling / Disabling Workflow System Traces are on the same dialog, at the same location, j...
11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Allow for a copy between branches to preserve object IDs in WebPD

If you are copying assets between branches/tracks when you use the default copy in WebPD it will automatically generate new PO IDs. This will cause dependencies to break if you are using a toolkit and for instance migration to encounter problems d...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Can we compare two snapshot in Process Designer to check the details level of code

We would like to know if there is any way to compare two snapshots to understand the exact code changes to the lowest level.As far as we know, we can compare only the documentation but nothing else. If there is no way , please let us know if you h...
about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to refresh process models in Workflow Center automatically after installing an iFix in Business Automation Workflow (BAW)

In scenarios where customer has huge of process apps/models, fix is effective only when customers modify the processes in some minor way or when they remove and readd the process app back in Workflow Center.
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add Ability to Open Active Subprocess in SVG API

BAMOE 8.0.5 and older versions - When a root process is instantiated that contains re-usable sub-process, and when the re-usable subprocess is active, the + icon on subprocess becomes clickable. When clicked, it launches another rest endpoint with...
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

Datacap does not accept numeric value in username filter

Datacap accept user ID in alpha-numeric and only numeric value is not accepted. This seems to be a design concern, since there is no validation or constraint on the format of the user ID, and this ID is directly used to define an XML element name,...
over 1 year ago in Datacap 2 Not under consideration

I would like for CP4BA routes to be able to use OpenShift platform certificates instead of requiring custom certificates with keys

In my environment, the platform team are allowed to use long duration certificates, and have configured one for the OpenShift platform certificate and AWS load balancer used by our Cloud Pak for Business Automation install. We need to use custom c...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 6 Planned for future release

Add trace/debugging mode for IBM RPA clients (Agent)

Improve the serviceability in the debugging of the IBM RPA client logs. Users currently, to enable logs in the information level, have to manually navigate to the installation folder, change the log files manually and restart the IBM RPA agent ser...
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Sailpoint integration to automate the access management

CP4BA is bundled with multiple products such FileNet Content Manager, Content Navigator, Business Automation Workflow, WebSphere,.etc. Sailpoint integration with CP4BA products will enable centralized access management, automate the access managem...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Not under consideration

Archival Support for BPMN Process Instances in CP4BA/BAW

Currently, CP4BA/BAW provides an archive system for BPEL (BPC) process instances, snapshots, branches, and tracks, but no equivalent feature exists for BPMN process instances.Providing a consistent archival mechanism would allow users to move comp...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration