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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

Enable dynamic human task creation in ad hoc process instances using Flexible Processes in BAMOE v9.x

Submitting on behalf of a customer who is migrating business projects from BAMOE v8.x to v9.x. Their solutions rely on CMMN’s ability to dynamically create human tasks during runtime. This functionality is not currently available in BAMOE v9.x Fle...

Setting default Coach View for a Business Object type

It would be nice to be able to set default coach view for each business object. Something like associating files with program. If there are multiple coach views that have the same business object type as binding, user could choose which one would ...
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

AI Enhancements - Indicate duplicate maps or where maps could link/connect to each other

AI Enhancements - Indicate duplicate maps or where maps could link/connect to each other
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Rediscovery of a Web service should be possible if the location of the Web service changed (e.g., its URL or file location)

There has been a change at VKB that now requires each service being called through an NGINX reverse proxy. That change implied that the location changed from where WSDLs for Web Services are obtained: BAW should now rediscover all services via the...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future 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

Filenet on Nutanix Hypervisor

Several ISA customers have deployed or planning to deploy traditional FileNet components on the Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor(AHV) due to cost advantages over VMware . While these deployments function as expected, customers are encountering support...
over 1 year ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Under review

Having the possibility to export Scripts from Control Center with their schedule to import into a different environment.

If customer has multiple environment he can move Scripts with their schedule to a different environment without uploading and scheduling one by one.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Stats break down - functionality to be added

In the Workflow ‘Stats', a feature needs to be built such that, upon filtering, we should be able to get the break-down of Stats, i.e. Count of;1. How many processes have been completed 2. How many approved 3. How many rejected 4. How many are sti...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 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 ...
8 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