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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.


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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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Online Backup and Restore

Availability of online backup and restore features and capabilities in Cloud Pak for Business Automation

Support for specifying a pre-existing S3 bucket for an Advanced Storage Area in the FileNet FNCM Operator and Custom Resource

When automating or otherwise creating a FileNet environment in OpenShift it is not possible to specify a pre-existing S3 bucket to use as the storage for an Advanced Storage Area, the environment must be created and then the ASA added with the S3 ...
15 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Option to disable 'ADVANCED COMPRESSION' on Case History store level even though the capaibility is available on Oracle DB server level.

Case History store automatically use function 'ADVANCED COMPRESSION' when it is available (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1097385). If the Case History store is configured to use an Oracle database and the Oracle server has ADVANCED compre...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Revert input/output variable mapping to classic view to remove extra steps

Users are facing challenges with BAW 23.0.1's new variable mapping process, finding it cumbersome due to extra clicks and complexity, especially in complex projects. The classic mapping offered quicker, more straightforward access to variable usag...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add support to search for custom objects and edit their properties

Supporting custom objects in ICN would be awesome as not everthing is a document or folder. Searching custom objects and edition their properties, sercurity and so on (Edit Properties Dialog) would be the first step.
5 months ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

Handle and display compoud documents (Parent-child-connection)

At the moment, the handling of compound documents in the IBM Content Navigator via Cloud Pak for Business Automation is not very convenient and continuously in the IBM Content Navigator. The display as well isn't that useful. In the attached docum...
3 months ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

Exception Handling for the Scripts

My idea is to have something close to what we have in Blueprism today, a block. A block is a rectangular region that groups together all the stages that fall completely within it. A block can contain its own Recover Stage, which will handle except...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Future consideration

WebPD: Ability to debug instances running on Inactive snapshot

In an online/connected workflow server environments, Desktop PD has the ability to debug instances running in Active and Inactive snapshots. However with the Web PD, we only have the ability to debug the instances running on the Active snapshot. C...
16 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

User inactivity - logging and automated LDAP role unassignment > 90 days - audit requirements

All (!) companies must fulfill cyber security requirements which are not yet feature in ODM: ISO 27001 In addition, in automotive industryTISAX requirements in addition, companies with critical infrastructure. NIS 2 (EU 2022/2555) and RCE (EU 2022...
16 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Set project security/visibility when publishing to Decision Center

Currently if a project is published or added to Decision Center, by default no security is enforced. When a user publishes a project and before an admin can enforce security on it, all users of DC have access to this project. If project security c...
16 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration