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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

Configurable LDAPS DNS Resolution Behavior for FileNet P8 (CPE)

In FileNet P8 CPE domain directory configurations using LDAPS, connections fail when a DNS alias resolving to multiple A records is used. CPE resolves the alias into individual IP addresses and attempts LDAPS connections using those IPs. Certifica...
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

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:...
about 3 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

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

Enhancement Request - Enable Bulk Retrieval with CMOD REST API

CMOD REST API has capability to retrieve one document (docID) at a time, can it be enhanced to enable multiple doc retrievals like with arsdoc get?
11 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

Add vector indexing/deindexing as an event action

Vector indexing/deindexing is crucial for developers to maintain a minimally sized vector index. As of right now the only way to deindex a document is with a custom sweep job. That's fine for manually cleaning up a repository every once in a while...
11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Old BFM (BPEL) APIs available with valid and complete OpenAPI specifications on BAW swagger.

Currently BAW swagger only offers only BAW Process/Task API (OpenAPI standard) whereas BPEL, HTM and BFM are currently not available on BAW Swagger definition. With the enhancement customer can make use of the standard OpenAPI definition available...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Have option to secure TCP communication between XU and RES console.

User doing port scan and find this port is not secure. Ideally there should be option to secure this port as well.
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Users inside the nested groups are unable to login unless they add the group directly

In an active directory group that have many other groups as members, the users inside the nested groups are unable to login unless they add the group directly.
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Improve search filter usability in IBM Content Navigator: Display static text when only one option (e.g. “Include all”) is available

When creating a search in IBM Content Navigator (ICN), under the property options configuration, users can define the filter options — for example, selecting Include all as the only valid option. However, when the search is created, the filter dro...
11 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

Tooltips remain visible and block interface components during native UI configuration in ICN

When using a native user interface within IBM Content Navigator, tooltips that appear and sometimes remain visible and do not disappear as expected. We want, through configuration, in Content Search, to hide the tooltips of a predefined multi-choi...
11 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration