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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

GenAI Search Document Query Object

Provide an API that will allow for searching based on document properties and their values so the search can be incorporated into the GenAI Multi Doc process vs. having to query FileNet to get the document GUIDs and then call GenAI Multi Doc. This...
10 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

SharePoint webpart to Push content to CP4A

Today, the SharePoint is limited to the possibility to list and Search documents sotred in P8. However, as SharePoint is the collaboration platform to create content in the company, we have to provide the capability for him/her to push the docume...
over 4 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Support Hot-keys to launch attended bots

Support users to use hot-keys to start attended bot's they have listed in launcher. A Default Hot-Key for each bot should be managed by administrators and users should have the ability to overwrite it locally to fit personal needs.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

Content Navigator Configuration & Deployment tool support on Shared Network Drive

Customer has an architectural requirement to install and deploy Content Navigator on Shared Network Drive which is not a supported method until now.
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Export WebSphere Application Server Network Deployed Configurations to Container YAML

Converting on premise WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Network Deployed (ND) configurations to Kubernetes supported container platform YAML requires manual collection of configurations like Data Sources, Name Spaces, Connection Factories, Enviro...
over 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

ODM Container - Addition of Kerberos configuration to IBM Helm chart for Oracle Database connectivity

Hi, Our Oracle Database is fully kerberized and we need Kerberos authentication to be added to ODM version 8.11.1.0 and Helm - 22.2.0 For configuring kerberos, we need to pass the following file which are available in our organization: krb_config:...
almost 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

ACCE should allow the possibility to create a property template of type object with cardinality LIST.

ACCE should allow the possibility to create a property template of type object with cardinality LIST. In our case management system, we create data entities for people and organization that also contain information about their addresses. We find i...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

Information about the expiry of the license

IBM business partners who control their customers' licenses need to know the expiration date of the licenses, so that we can carry out the controls and renew them for the customers. This information was previously in the Tenant, and with the new l...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

SRVC: Enabling Instana in CP4BA

Understand and Research about enabling Instana CP4BA - Alert optimization - Identify the top five CP4BA alerts along with their resolutions, to facilitate automated resolution through Instana and Ansible
5 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Microsoft Entra ID integration without providing LDAP server or port details

As part of bank security compliance customer is migrating to latest, secured IDP and as per regulatory it is prohibited to share LDAP server host or port details. So, SCB is exploring ways to achieve this for CMOD thick clients.
5 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted