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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...

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Allow to use config map/secret to mount files to ODM pod

The client have some common 3rd party library jar files shared by different rulesets, instead of putting them in XOM lib for each ruleset, they want these classes to be loaded only once. So they are fine to use downloadURL for these files. But the...
18 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

IBM Process Mining Simulation with Parallelism

Currently, Parallelism is not supported for the simulation engine in IBM Process Mining. The customer wants it included in IBM Process Mining to analyze such type of processes.
9 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Planned for future release

Feasibility in moving arrows on process diagram

Customer trying to move arrows form one place to another place ( based on business requirement) on process diagram , some time arrows are not moving , or some times when they move arrows diagram is getting messed up. attached screen shots with exa...
5 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Support inflight instance migration from BAW to CP4BA for Microsoft SQL Server

As per CP4BA v24.0.1 documentation, there is support for instance migration from BAW to CP4BA. However, this feature comes with a limitation that it is supported only for DB2 database. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0....
19 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

Upgrade to MS SQL 2022 Compatibility Level to 2016 while on IBM P8 BAW 21.0.3.x before upgrading to BAW 24.0.x

Customers need to update their MS SQL Server environment to 2022 ASAP and request that they run it in SQL Server Compatibility Level 2016, which the customer is presently on (SQL Server 2016 SP2) before they upgrade to BAW 24.0.x on new hardware.
19 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Enable Configuration of "Allows Null Values" Parameter for Database Index Creation in ACCE

We would like to request an enhancement to the FileNet Content Platform Engine (CPE) ACCE to address a limitation in the current functionality regarding database index creation. Problem Statement: When creating database indexes via ACCE, the "Allo...
19 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

A mobile app which tells doctors which medicines are new in the market in their specialization

Doctors would be able to easily prescribe the medicine and would not require the need of medical representative. The medicine companies will put their new product in the database. Also the GPS will tell which pharmacy nearby has the medicine.
19 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Ability to view the BOM member documentation in the Model->Vocabulary view of BC when mouse hover

Our business users find Model->Vocabulary view of the Business Console very useful especially as all the members of the BOM (attributes and virtual methods) and their verbalisation can be easily located in one place. We do also support our busi...
about 1 month ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Allow asset sharing between BAW and BAA (Business Automation Application)

Customer (Hennepin County) developed BAA apps, including toolkits and templates. They would like to export the BAA artifacts and import them into BAW. Otherwise they will need to recode the same in both BAW and BAA.
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Deploying same snapshot without any changes causing issue jni already loaded in another classloader

When we deploy a snapshot and create an instance id, it is able to make a rest call to external service. When we deploy another new snapshot without any changes and creating instance we are seeing jni already loaded in another classloader. Error o...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration