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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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Add support to search for custom objects and edit their properties

Supporting custom objects in ICN would be awesome as not everthing is a document or folder. Searching custom objects and edition their properties, sercurity and so on (Edit Properties Dialog) would be the first step.
7 months ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

Option to disable 'ADVANCED COMPRESSION' on Case History store level even though the capaibility is available on Oracle DB server level.

Case History store automatically use function 'ADVANCED COMPRESSION' when it is available (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1097385). If the Case History store is configured to use an Oracle database and the Oracle server has ADVANCED compre...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Remove the case-sensitivity check when an instance is launched in PFS Process Portal

As worked on case TS013115945, when a user is updated in LDAP from lower to uppercase of vice-versa, PFS and BAW does not update the user as expected since it checks the full path with no case-sensitivity… if it matches the exact same path, it’s s...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

AWS S3 Bucket with Object Lock and in Compliance Mode connected as a Fixed Content Device Storage to CPE, map CPE Indefinite Retention to AWS S3 Legal Hold Flag

Currently indefinite is not allowed or supported from CPE to AWS S3, the CPE value of 9999-12-20 12AM UTC is sent to S3 and S3 complains that the date value is not allowed as S3 has a maximum value of 100 years in the future for retention date. In...
19 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Provision of Turbonomic Operator Resource Mappings for the Cloud Pak for Business Automation to allow automated resource management

IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management is used to dynamically manage IT resources to ensure application performance while avoiding infrastructure waste. Applying the Turbonomic Kubernetes Optimization use case to the Cloud Pack for Busines...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

Collector HANA Application

we are looking for solution to integrate Cognos 11.1 with SAP HANA Application
almost 5 years ago in Content Collector for SAP 0 Not under consideration

Filenet & Azure Blob storage integration

As of now, FileNet and Azure Blob can be configured together only using shared key. However, due to known risks and issues shared key access is disabled in some organizations. Alternative way of making this connection (e.g. using Azure Active Dire...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Under review

More granulated control for e-mail notifications

Currently, it is only possible to enable or disable in the Workplace profile the option to receive e-mail notifications when a task is assigned. When a user start a process and the first task is assigned to the user or a launch UI is associated wi...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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 1 month ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 7 Planned for future release