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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...

All ideas

IBM BPM Portal user session

The BPM Portal session doesn't expire after the timeout set to 15 minute , however it keep the user session valid . As per IBM BPM support we made the changes on following app -App_clustermember IBM_BPM_Portal_TMS_AppCluster IBM_BPM_Teamworks_TMS_...
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

ODM RES "Creation Date" is from when the deployment artifact is kicked off from Decision Center and not when it was deployed to the RES.

The "Creation Date" is from Decision Center, but from an audit perspective we need to be able to evidence when the ruleset was deployed to the RES. These times can be roughly the same if you push from directly form Decision Center to the RES, but ...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Future consideration

ODM native support for password vault integration (ex. CyberArk)

Currently, ODM requires passwords to either be hardcoded or injected on deployment. This has resulted in some custom code on our side because we aren't able to have ODM make a call to CyberArk using an Alias to retrieve the service account/passwor...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Provide a java class/method that can create a teamspace based on a template, usable from an event handler or navigator service

It appears most/all of the code to create teamspaces is embedded in Content Navigator. That requires someone to navigate a UI to create a teamspace. This idea is to provide a simple Java entry point that takes a teamspace template and allows you t...
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

CP4BA Case client not responsive in mobile browsers

On CP4BA 21.0.3,the case client is not responsive in mobile browsers.The project is developed for thousands of pepople in the company. The CU is clamoring for the mobile browser support for CP4BA Case Client.Please share the schedule to implement ...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Dashboards not marked as favorites in Process Portal removed as favorites after application deploy

Question When I deploy a new snapshot version of my Process Application, why do the dashboards that are marked favorite get removed as favorites? I have a dashboard in a Process App that I have marked as a favorite in Process Portal. When I deploy...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Needs more information

Option to filter out or hide items in the merge panel result that are of the same contents and only have version number differences.

Merging activity across releases in Decision Center with Governance Framework results in many differences being shown on unchanged items – due to version number differences. We would like to have option to filter out or hide items in the merge pan...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Not under consideration

Process - Clear data

After development and testing could have a button to clear all data of process, to go into production with no values
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

TTB need to enable button "printing" on password-protected PDF documents in IBM Filenet (DAEJA viewer )

TTB need to enable button "printing" on password-protected PDF documents in IBM Filenet (DAEJA viewer ) Client name : TMBTHANACHART BANK PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED Refer to IBM case TS013546704 How to set To be able to print documents with printers th...
over 2 years ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Future consideration

Add LSW_TASK.READ_DATETIME attribute to TWTask JS API

I have a customer requirement to capture the date/time a task was claimed, but it appears that the only way to obtain this data is from the READ_DATETIME column in the LSW_TASK table - it is not exposed via the TWTask JS API. It would be very help...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration