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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 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

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Hide CMIS query objects when running a service

As per security team recommendation, Information that can help attackers to have an idea of backend query should not be disclosed in HTTP requests and such queries should not be constructed at server end.
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

WebPD compatibility with Internet Explorer 11

After updating the BAW from 20.0.0.1 To 21.0.3.1, WebPD URLs are not opening in IE. We have opened a cases TS016251380, TS016277223 and TS016924100 and IBM suggested to use Modern Browser. When Application teams are using modern browsers, they are...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

IBM BAW to support DB schema name changes, as the current system only supports schema names matching the original, impacting our necessary DB refresh practice.

We are experiencing an issue with IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) related to the DB schema reference. Despite updating the database credentials in the WebSphere Application Server (WAS) console to the new username PRODICNDB, the system cont...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

ODM support for Akeyless external vault

The customer's security team requires credentials to be stored in an external vault, they have standardized on the Akeyless product. Customer previously used Hashicorp Vault but are no longer using that product. The request is to not have credenti...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Support for PFX Certificates in the HTTP Request Command

Currently, the HTTP Request command in IBM RPA does not support sending certificates, which prevents secure communication via mTLS. To address this limitation, we propose adding a feature that allows attaching PFX certificates directly in the HTTP...
about 1 month ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

Ability of still using maintenance.admin after enabling SAML

Once you enable SAML, it's not possible to access Process Mining instance with maintenance.admin. This would be a good idea in case you have SAML configuration issues, because you'd still be able to access the product, without running through the ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

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...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Would like to have a multi-thread upload for large documents across filenet APIs using GRAPH QL.

Our business users would benefit from it because they sometimes have large documents to upload.
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Under review

OCR engine is not picking up special characters such as umlaut or tilde.

Customers would like the OCR A or OCR S engine to be able to recognize umlauts for pronunciation and tilde. Example: Ä – make the sound “eh” or “ê” without gliding into the sound “ey”; Ö – make the sound “ê” and purse your lips into an O shape; Ü ...
about 2 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 3 Under review