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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

Support Jakarta XML Binding instead of Javax XML binding in newer ODM release

On ODM 9.5, jdk is moving to JDK 21, and runs in Jakarta EE container, but Liberty/ODM is still running Javax XML binding instead of Jakarta XML Binding. We want use the new xml binding 4.0 instead of old one.
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Improve error messages on file upload

When a file upload fails, the product currently shows a generic "Generic Error" with no detail about what went wrong. This makes it hard for customers to diagnose and fix the problem on their own, and it drives avoidable support requests. We shoul...
4 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Future consideration

Automatic SVG generation in BAMOE9 during Gradle builds

In BAMOE8, the process SVG was automatically generated, which ensured that the visualization stayed in sync with the process definition. In BAMOE9, we currently have to generate or refresh the SVG manually. It would be great to restore the BAMOE8 ...
17 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.4.x 5 Functionality already exists

CP4BA / WfPS Dependency on Broad Wildcard Certificates – Request for Supported Alternatives

We understand that certain IBM CloudPak components may benefit from the use of wildcard certificates such as *.svc.cluster.local and *.api to simplify certificate management for dynamically created services and routes. However, our organization's ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Under review

Rediscover option for external services

If an external service is created based on the discovery of a Java, REST, or Web Service, a rediscover button is essential. This button would enable the updating of the methods associated with that service or defined object structure without the n...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Future consideration

Hybrid Solution Fixed Content Storage (Retention) with Advanced Storage Area (Staging)

Enhance fixed content device storage to utilize advanced storage areas for staging vs a localized path / file storage location as currently designed. This would utilize the streaming aspects of advanced storage, eliminating local operating system ...
11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 2 Future consideration

Add REST/API equivalent for BPMSetECMServerProperties in CP4BA

Customers migrating from traditional BAW to CP4BA containers currently do not have a supported automated way to manage ECM server properties for process application snapshots. Traditional BAW provides the BPMSetECMServerProperties wsadmin command,...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Decouple BAW and CPE due to licensing issue

Currently, it is not possible that Process Portal to be used (without repository - CPE) in a CP4BA environment, as it is tightly coupled currently. The operator configures CPE URL, its credentials, its connection information as part of the BAW pod...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Add official support for Apache Kafka 4.x (including 4.1.1) in IBM ODM Decision Server Runtime.

Currently, IBM ODM 9.5.0.1 includes a Kafka client version 3.9.1 and is officially supported only against Kafka 3.x environments per the published compatibility matrix. Upgrading Kafka infrastructure to version 4.1.1 (e.g., IBM Event Streams 4.1.1...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration