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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...

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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

Unlock Greater Flexibility and Resilience with the ability to manage Automatic Exception Handling (AEH) in Decision Center (DC)

Currently, AEH is exclusively controlled within Rule Designer, creating a bottleneck and limiting our ability to adapt quickly. By enabling AEH in Decision Center, you would grant business users the power to configure this setting, eliminating del...
11 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Create a option to be able to change the clausule "pagesize" in a global way for the GraphQL API.

GraphQL API, limit the number of records returned to the client to 50. This il limit is only posible to modify, including the clausule "pagesize" in every query executed. There is not possible to change this value to increase the default 50 in a g...
11 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Online Backup of CP4BA deployment

Currently we cannot perform online backup in CP4BA, We have Fusion recipes but those are not taking complete backup of the CP4BA namespace. It will be great if online backup of CP4BA namespace can be made possible. The online backup tool for Cp4BA...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Future consideration

BAW CI/CD support to other Git hosts (e.g., Bitbucket and GitLab)

product support for BAW CI/CD support to other Git hosts (e.g., Bitbucket and GitLab)
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Moving the endpoint configuration from appsettings.json to the Task Mining Agent application

During the installation of the Task Mining Agent, the endpoint must be specified upfront and can be modified only via the appsettings.json file. In a corporate environment, editing this file is restricted to users with Windows administrator privil...
4 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.
24 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...
25 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Is a defect

Update any red/green status indicators within the BAW UI application to improve accessibility.

Some users are unable to distinguish between red and green, making it difficult for them to interpret application status accurately. This is particularly impactful within the Event Manager Monitor in the Process Admin Console, but applies to any a...
25 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Submitted

Ability to pre populate query parameter from an external datasource

The customer's business users are heavy users of the the simulation feature. They have simulation configuration with query parameters which accept values for filtering the values of the simulation scenarios. There are times when the business users...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review