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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

Vault Support for custom code running in the CPE

When implementing Code Modules for the Content Engine, sometimes you want to integrate a backend system which requires an authenticationAt FOITT we have multiple of these integrated Code Modules. It would be very helpful with a vault integration t...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

SRVC: List user roles for task manger user when the logged in user accessed the ping page in an ICN container deployment

List user roles for task manger user when the logged in user accesses the ping page in an ICN container deployment. This is not populated consistently. This was working is the traditional Websphere deployment
8 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

Ability to purge orchestration processes from the Database

When using orchestration feature on RPA, you can get a high volume of records within the database (for some customers, over 100.000+ records) that may use unnecessary file system from the database. The idea is to create a feature to purge this dat...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Support the use of cmisURI in repository.properties for CMIS spec v1.1

There is a functionality need for this feature and hence it was added/supported in CMIS spec v1.0. The same should be supported in CMIS spec 1.1 especially that CMIS spec 1.1 is recommended by IBM over spec 1.0.
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Mask or Disable Version Disclosure in /DecisionService Root Endpoint

Currently, sending a simple unauthenticated GET request to the root context of the Decision Service (e.g., https://[Server]/DecisionService) returns a plain HTML page displaying the full product name, version number, and specific build level (e.g....
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Not under consideration

Add a Testing Decision Operation run configuration in the RD plugin for ODM On Cloud

Such a run configuration is currently available in RD on premise, but not in the RD for ODM On Cloud ! This execution configuration complements the Tests and Simulation local menu, allowing you to verify a project and generate an Excel scenario fi...
8 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration

IBM Process Mining to allow widget to display a list of case IDs on metrics creation

IBM Process Mining to allow widget to display a pop-up and list of case IDs on metrics creation. Users want to, after a widget is created that a pop-up appears when on the table cells. See the following example: - In a table widget with severities...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Specific log files for different apps

When using IBM BPM on cloud, we need some capability as developer to define different log files for different process application).
almost 9 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM JDK 17 support

FileNet Content Management currently supports only IBM JDK 8 with traditional WebSphere. Though IBM JDK 8 is long term supported the industry has already moved to the latest version of JDK. Currently only the liberty supports with latest JDK. Need...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Process Inspector should allow to filter Process Instances on Process Start Date

BAW Process Inspector allows to filter processes by Status, Sev. Type, Process App, Person and Last Modified Date. In addition to these, Process Inspector should allow to FILTER on Process Start date to allow Business Analysts to dig into process ...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration