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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

Enabling Client-Cert authentication for ODM RES running on AWS EKS (Certified Kubernetes)

Customer needs to configure Client-Cert Authentication. They are looking forward to steps relevant to containerized ODM RES on AWS EKS (Certified Kubernetes), on how to enable, and configure Client-Cert authentication for api endpoints of rules pa...
about 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

LDAP Sync on multiplatform CMOD: Enable wild card with user filter in ars.cfg.

Currently there is no wild card allowed under ARS_LDAP_USER_FILTER parameter in ars.cfg file. This feature is present in ARS_LDAP_GROUP_FILTER parameter. Because of this, the users and groups are able to independently sync to CMOD after arslsync i...
over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 4 Functionality already exists

Add support for AWS Cognito for Business Automation Workflow (BAW) on Containers (not CP4BA).

We are an IBM partner, and our long-term IBM Case Management Federal customer is migrating from IBM Case Manager, users in AWS Managed Microsoft AD service, on a Linux environment to Containers on AWS. The customer does not need the full BAW capab...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

The introduction of a "latest" aggregate to filter events in BAI Dashboard

The dashboard should show the last action(Alone) carried out on items so user can only see the timestamp of the latest event and not all event on the primary filtered unique ID(filter). Examples: Documents are loaded on navigator.. Filter: Doc ID,...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Eliminate tablespace information for postgres in BAW on Containers

Customer: Discover Financial Services Product: Business Automation Workflow on Containers version : 22.x onwards DFS is using RDS Postgres Operator on AWS so we are not using the traditional postgres version, Cleanup is needed to keep required val...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Predefined schema creation setup in BAW on Containers

Customer: Discover Financial Services Product: Business Automation Workflow on Containers version : 22.x onwards DFS Postgres Design Pattern is to have schema creation is predefined step and should be created in advance with proper naming conventi...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Use Azure Blob Immutable storage as a Fixed Content Device

Azure Blob storage is not listed as a Fixed Content Device in the Document Storage technote for FileNet Content Manager and IBM Content Foundation. ASA does not support immutable storage, so a CPE retention policy must be set up to match the Azure...
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Task mining - task classification - exclude task (not working)

Task classification - Exclude task (not working) In a situation where the user manually assigns a name to a task, in that case the option to exclude tasks does not work. Such a task should not proceed to the next steps (Project configuration)(I se...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Is a defect

Process Mining - What If - Your to-be scenario - automatic process overview update

Your to-be scenario - automatic process overview update At the level of Your-to-be scenario making changes in the Process evolutions and Configuration tabs and applying the Simulate action, the process overview is not updated. The same problem is ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Is a defect

Enable reverse propagation of choice list updates from Content Engine (ACCE) to Case Builder.

Choice list updates made directly in ACCE (Content Engine) should be reflected in Case Builder without being overwritten during solution redeploy. Currently, if a user updates a choice list directly in ACCE (for example, via a plugin or manually),...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration