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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:

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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All Warning and Errors in WebPD section

All errors and warning from BPM artifacts should be displayed in Warnings and Errors section of the Web PD. Now only a subset is displayed and multiple types of errors are missing e.g. errors in javascript editors of Views event handlers, warning ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Remove 24h Restriction on Credential Vault

Remove or allow the Credential Vault Timeout to be set on the server instead of forcing a 24h Attended timeout
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

client should be able to customize Advanced Search page in Case Client

As of now, Advanced Search page is not allowed customized(please refer to the screenshot advancedsearch2.png). Sometimes users would like to hide some search condition or add some notes in the page. It is reasonable. But it is not allowed in curre...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Include only needed rfl (ruleflow) files in the ruleapp generated

Today ODM adds all the ruleflow files from the operation's source project to the ruleapp generated. When the same project is used as the source project for other operations but rule flows are different, it creates unnecessary dependency when all t...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

Allow change Owners of processes

For the version after v1.13, we can not change the owner of a process/project. Can we allow it? I know it is possible to change the owner of an organization.
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

An environment that only has ICN configured with Kerberos SSO, while everything is not configured with Kerberos SSO.

This will be useful for customer that wants to have an environment where ICN to be configured with Kerberos SSO and other products like BAW and CPE can be configured with other authentication methods such as basic authentication.
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

App dynamics integration with Cloud Pak for Business Automation

We are using AppDynamics as our enterprise monitoring tool , please enable an easy integration of AppDynamics with cloud pack.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Future consideration

Option to load in memory on start objects blocked by com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.disallowAllFileServing=true OR fileServingEnabled=false

WebSphere Application Server Control Procedures within our company require that file serving be disabled when at all possible. We have found EASPI and other files are loaded this way when ICN loads page side, i.e. during login. If there could be a...
about 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

External webservice Call with ANY is not supported

As part of migration from BPM 8.6 to BAW 21.0.3, imported the latest twx file (production deployed twx file) into the newly set up BAW 21.0.3 environment. After successful importing, converted all components under BPD, UI AND Service Conversions. ...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Dashboard Display Order - reset after snapshot deploy

Make Dashboard Display Order independent from the application snapshot, see https://developer.ibm.com/recipes/tutorials/defaulting-custom-dashboards-in-ibm-bpm-process-portal/
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration