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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


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Retrieval of group name associated to a batch

We would need a supported API, database query, RuleRunner action or .NET API method that allows a custom action running in RuleRunner to retrieve the Group Name(s) of the group(s) associated with the current batch at runtime
2 months ago in Datacap Future consideration

Provide an option to exclude unused rule flows during rule app archive generation. Currently system supports rule-level filtering through query parameters (e.g., status and tags), similar filtering capabilities are not extended to rule flows, leading to the inclusion of redundant artifacts in the archive.

In the current application, certain rule flows are maintained in Decision Center exclusively for testing purposes, and there is a need to exclude these non-production flows during deployment to the Decision Server. While the platform currently sup...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

Configuration option to default filter to "All Types" in Decision Center

I'm reaching out regarding the filter settings in Decision Center. Currently, the filter is persisted for each user, but there's no option to default it to "All Types" for all users or branches. Could you please consider adding a feature to allow ...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Future consideration

Enable fetching of oidc access_token from zen/foundational services to use for authenticating downstream services.

It is useful because it would enable us to authentienticate downstream services (BAW external services) with access_token generated from OIDC flow (and ideally compatible with this: Invoking CP4BA APIs using custom authentication tokens). From BAW...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

Configurable ressources for init-folder-readonlyfs container

We are using the official helm charts from https://github.com/IBM/charts/tree/master/repo/ibm-helmCurrently I am using: ibm-odm-prod-25.1.7.tgz Our multi tenant Openshift 4.18 cluster is totally relying on ressouce quotas for namespaces.For our OD...
about 2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

when using ICN sync the user should have an option to view the contents of the folder

when using ICN sync the user should have an option to view the contents of the folders locally without actually downloading the file. Ideally we should have an option to view the file names and only download the file locally when needed. This will...
18 days ago in Content Navigator Submitted

Ability to customize the title that appears when you launch ICN Sync client

We see the following title in the ICN sync client. The customer has deployed a customized navigator with an internal name. 1) We need a way to configure the text IBM Content Navigator Sync 2) We need option to support multiple languages This allow...
18 days ago in Content Navigator Submitted

Task mining - allowed applications and webpages (the ability to create and save a set)

When adding applications and websites (allowed list), there should be an option to save a given set of applications and websites (e.g., Set 1 = Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint). This solution is very important because with a larger number of user...
4 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Functionality already exists

Add an Owner attribute to Blueworks Live workspaces, visible in the UI and accessible via API.

User unable to see or set an Owner field when opening a workspace (specific Workspace) or through any API.
4 months ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

Renaming a group in Okta causes the corresponding FileNet group reference to become orphaned after SCIM push to CP4BA.

When a group is renamed in Okta and pushed through SCIM / IdP to CP4BA, the renamed group does not maintain the same effective linkage in FileNet. As a result, the original group reference in FileNet becomes orphaned, which can affect access tied ...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

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