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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:

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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,

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  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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Execute parallel nodes in real parallel

We're trying BAMOE 9.2; one of the use cases that we have is for microservices orchestration and saga patterns; to achieve that it's very important the performance. One of the cases that our clients are demanding us is to execute steps in parallel...

Enable the configuration of global libraries/shared libraries (java) (Ref case TS018621875)

Context: We are migrating from twas BAW 23.0.2 to latest CP4BA version. In our BAW process applications we use external services extensively. Mostly to integrate with in-house rest/soap services. These external services(java code) all read propert...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Encryption Support for OnDemand Ecosystem

Provide support and capabilities around encrypting connections to/from the OnDemand Ecosystem. Additional details/conversation can be found in case TS018552989 .
about 13 hours ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

Support for Self-Hosting Carbon Design Fonts in Process Admin console UI to Enable Air-Gapped or Restricted Environments

The downloading of the CSS fonts is documented in recent versions of BAW. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/24.0.x?topic=servers-accessing-process-admin-console Note: It is expected that when you access the Process Admin Console, it downloads the CS...
14 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Integrate Absence Management Features into IBM BAW

In complex and long running processes implemented with IBM BAW where many different workers are involved in activities a way of managing absence of workers and specific named substitutes for taking over the ongoing activities is needed. IBM BAW un...
14 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Cache choice list data on the client side to improve performance

We have a number of long-running queries, and while indexing is helping, additional gains could be achieved if choice lists could be cached.
5 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

In case of multipage PDFs, the new action allows us to define which pages will be OCR’ed and analyzed by Datacap. Same as action SplitTIFFPageRange for Tiff-Files.

If a MultipagePDF includes 100 pages all of them will be extracted. We just need the first page the process will take minutes until all pages are extracted in a time critical process (1 Batch in less than 15 sec.). that is not exactable. The actio...
21 days ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

The BPMDeleteDurableMessages command should allow users to specify messages that have been consumed, not just a date range as it exists currently

As it stands the BPMDeleteDurableMessages command only allows you to specify a date cut-off for deleting durable messages. It should also give you the option to specify that you only wish to delete consumed messages. Right now there is no mechanis...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Submitted

Allow a parameter to the Bulk Instance Details REST API method to only bring back the executionTree

We have situations where we need to move the token. The only place to get the token ids (that we have found) is the Bulk Instance Details method in the REST API. It brings back everything. We would like to have an option for the parts parameter to...
6 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

IBM Filenet - product install is non-compliant to OpenSCAP

Dutch Tax uses RedHat Linux in combination with FileNet. Our Linux team keeps the environment continuously up-to-date to stay in RedHat support. However, this regularly causes problems with the rollout of our FileNet software. Our silent install s...
8 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted