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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...

All ideas

Certification of pure storage WORM use via S3 or other method for FileNet Content manager and CMOD

This is a request to expand the available WORM storage vendors available
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Allow use of Postgres or other lightweight development database with IID/UTE for BAW

This would speed up the development process so that BAW developers would not need to rely on their system administration team to install local DB2 on each workstation for a local development database. Postgres would be a popular choice but any lig...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Provide user-centric API which can show "direct" memberships to BPM "groups"

We want to be able to provision some new users who will have the same authority and visibility as some existing users.We are currently relying on a SQL query provided by our IBM Support Engineer, and are aware this isn't a "supported" technique be...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Please add flow charting symbols

We need to create System and/or Data flow diagrams. Symbols to create such flow diagrams are not available currently in the tool. Please can you add standard data flow charting symbols (input, processing, output, applications, databases, interface...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Fix Column sequence mismatch issue in Decision Runner generated spreadsheet report

We have introduced multi-column in the scenario sheet to handle input JSON request of size > 32K characters. 32K is the cell size limitation.But the columns in Decision Runner generated report spreadsheet get jumbled up. The column sequence is ...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Is a defect

Support for API's that are not listed in the documentation

The customer was able to find some endpoints that are not listed in the documentation. User management:import user in a tenant:• https://cpd-bpm-rpa.apps.<Cluster>/rpa/api/v1.0/pt- BR/user/importList users from tenant• https://cpd-bpm-rpa.ap...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Needs more information

Support full Kafka protocol for event - key and header support missing

Our BAMOE 8.0.5 deployment on OpenShift is integrated with an external Kafka cluster. In the processes that are running in our BAMOE instance, tasks shall be used to send and receive Kafka messages, containing a message value and a specific messag...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 2 Planned for future release

Visual indication in the thumbnails when there is an annotation on the page

There is no visual indication on whether annotations are on a specific page. This helps the user quickly navigate to those pages that have annotations.
6 months ago in Daeja Virtual Viewer 0 Planned for future release

Sensitive information disclosure vulnerability where usernames are exposed in page source, enabling potential user enumeration and targeted attacks.

Information disclosure occurs when sensitive data is unintentionally revealed through web page source code, HTML comments, or error messages. This information can often be extracted via browser developer tools. Impact When sensitive information, s...
6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 2 Not under consideration

Security misconfiguration-internal folder disclosure

When folder names or paths are visible in the source code or HTML structure of a webapplication (e.g., via inspect element), it can inadvertently reveal the internal architectureto users. This information can be particularly valuable to malicious ...
6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration