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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 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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"Run now" scheduled UCA in the Workflow Server

There is "Run Now" button in the Workflow Center. It is an easy way to manually run scheduled UCA.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=agents-creating-configuring-undercover-agent-scheduled-message-event However, the Workflow Server environm...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

For FileNet Content Platform Encryption, support for KMIP 2.0 standard needed in 2023

Thales Software is combining several products (like Vormetric DSM) into a future suite called CipherTrust, this product requires KMIP 2.0 standard. Thales CiperTrust becomes main KMIP provider solution in 2024 (sounds like per internal crypto team...
about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Planned for future release

Enhance the operator mechanism

Currently, if want to change anything of the existing environment, the operator need to check all the existing resources and then apply the change. It could take up to more than one hour to wait for the change take effective. This mechanism doesn'...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0

Cross repository search (CRS) does not currently support property/attribute groups like regular search does.

Currently, when Client is trying to build a Cross Repository Search Template, but when they choose to exclude all condition for String property, he is unable to get documents which has blank values in search results.
6 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

As a user I want to automatically filter the In-basket based on the Logged in Users "Profit Center"

("Profit center" represent the logged-in user’s organization belonging/or branch office location for the logged in user). An Idea of solution: The logged in User (Profile) in Case Client should be able to add(configure) on one or more strings for ...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Site Oriented Configuration Items Instead of Domain Level

Fixed Content Devices, configuring the URL to connect to HCP for instance, would be good to either A) have a fail over URL property (try A, if A doesn’t work try B) OR per site/jvm structure have site A connect to A HCP Head and site B connect to ...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Add Hierarchical BOM View to New Action Editor Like Existed in Old Editor

Please add the hierarchical view of the BOM that shows each object and each attribute that can be selected for each object to the new editors similar to what existed in the old editors.
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Readiness for KIE Server that includes DB readiness

KIE uses a persistence to store the latest state of the process instances etc. When a wrong configuration is provided for DB, KIE becomes ready but healthcheck return 503. As this scenario happens inside Kubernetes cluster, previous serving KIE PO...
6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Under review

Activate case-insensitivity in TWSearch

TWSearch API is case sensitive. So for example the search result for "customer= ibm " will be completely different than for "customer= IBM " which is creating confusion sometimes while searching and It would be easy if there is a setting to Activa...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

dynamic groups of users in IAM of cp4ba

create a dynamic user group to automatically add users to the IAM as they are created in the AD
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration