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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).


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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:

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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,

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  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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Decision Center needs to provide REST API based Microsoft Active Directory connection to Sync group users

Currently, Decision Center provides LDAP and SCIM based connections for user registry. We use Microsoft Active Directory as a user registry and it doesn't support LDAP or SCIM. We know that, Microsoft Active Directory does not have a publicly expo...
21 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Decision Center does not have Rest API to Enforce Project Security

Currently, we use the following manual procedure to Enforce Project Security in Decision Center Console: Login to Decision Center Console Click on "Project Security" tab Hover mouse over "Branch/Project" row Click on "Pencil Icon" New popup window...
22 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Add property within the Deployment Environment configuraion properties file to disable data sources

When migrating exisiting configuration to new machines some DB's might needed to be blocked . In our case we have created a duplicate test environemnt for our BAW version so we needed some DB's data sources to be blocked.
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Needs more information

Add the option 'Right Click' to command Click on Web Page

It would be useful to add this enhancment to the command to avoid unnecessary workrounds ( get coordinates of element via window indentifications, attaching window and use mouse command ). This workround also proved more times ineffective or was n...
6 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

Allowing Custom Cache Expiry Settings for CMIS in BAW

Currently, the cache timeout for CMIS object type hierarchies in IBM BAW is hardcoded (1 hour in internal CMIS). This leads to significant delays (3.5–4 minutes) when the cache expires and is regenerated—especially in solutions with a large number...
12 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Changing default column headers in Datacap job monitor to Uppercase

In Datacap Navigator Job Monitor default column headers are in title case format.Customer managed to change custom columns in uppercase format using recommendations DB2 using https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7165575However, same recommendati...
12 days ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

FileNet Content Manager domain option to remove "Key Management" configuration

As part of Proof-of-concept implementation, we enabled 'KMIP' configuration under P8 Domain > Key Management and successfully tested it in Non-Production environment. With complexity of the configuration and operational challenges, we plan to u...
2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Support for Tracability, OpenTelemetry and Instrumentation to be able to use tools like Jaeger,Kiali

There is need for tracing global transaction/request ID that starts with the platform UI and gets propagated to the various layers/components of CP4BA so that one can follow the transaction. Our clients are using OpenShift Service Mesh ( Istio ) a...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Not under consideration

Support for Service Mesh/ISTIO on OpenShift for CP4BA

Support for Service Mesh in CP4BA would be very helpful in enterprise installations. ISTIO is very popular and often this is a required by our clients. currently CP4BA does not support Service Mesh. This is helpful for: - mTLS (Mutual Transport La...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under 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...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 7 Planned for future release