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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

Excessive information disclosure by the IBM BAW diagnostic endpoint

It is recommended to restrict access to the /sync/api/configurations/ping endpoint to trusted IP addresses or administrative accounts only, or to disable it entirely in production environments if it is not operationally required.
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Dangerous CSP policy in the application

We recommend using nonce ( https://content-security-policy.com/nonce/ ) or hash ( https://content-security-policy.com/hash/ ) mechanisms for scripts loaded by the application.
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

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

Allow Marking Sets to Support Boolean Property Values

Allow Marking Sets to use Boolean properties (true/false) as drivers for applying markings (e.g., IsConfidential, ContainsPII, LegalHold). Today this requires workarounds (string “Y/N”, 0/1, custom rules), which breaks type-safety and increases ma...
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Add GraphQL support to create and manage FileNet Marking Sets (and Markings)

We are using the FileNet GraphQL API to industrialize (automate) Object Store provisioning and configuration via CI/CD across multiple environments. We recently discovered that GraphQL does not allow creating/managing Marking Sets and Markings, wh...
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

IBM should define a migration path from BAI Standalone to CP4BA

BAI Standalone is intended for clients with e.g. BAW Traditional. Mid Term, also these clients will consider to move their BAW applications from Traditional to CP4BA. At that time, IBM should be able to propose a path to consolidate the applicatio...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Under review

Leave browser instance open when it hits an error or stopped in debug

Currently when a browser instance hits an error it closes itself. This causes significant pain in trying to develop fast and debug any issues.
about 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Column naming visualization

Hello, After moving to IBAW, if column width is smaller then column name, name is shortened and "..." is put at its end. In previous version if column width was too small, column name was moved to the next line. If possible, we want to have old va...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Ablity to add the additional headers as an optional for the advance storage area for the S3 storage class

provisioning the ability for users to add the optional headers to specify a storage class in the x-amz-storage-class header either by jvm parameters or option s3 bucket configuration fields It will help lot of customers to reduce the transition co...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

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