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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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Change ephemeral storage usage to generic ephemeral volumes

The current usage of ephemeral storage (via {emptyDir} in deployment manifests can cause problems for bigger shared Openshift/Kubernetes environments, since the storage is allocated on the node storage, which can lead to pod eviction in case of un...
about 19 hours ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Ability/Flexibility to Modify/Delete Existing Case Properties

To improve flexibility and usability, it would be beneficial to enhance the product’s ability to add or modify case properties even after solution deployment. Allowing modifications to existing properties directly within the solution would provide...
about 16 hours ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Allow Users to Add a Custom PVC to the Workflow Process Service (WfPS) Component

Customer has a custom application that requires an absolute path to be specified. This is possible by mounting a custom pvc with the required mountPath. The requirement is to allow customers to add a PVC to the Workflow Process Service component. ...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Task SLA and Process SLA's not returned by the data index service

Generally, workflows are driven by the SLA of the Process and SLAs of the User task. Based on the User Tasks will be completed by the users.
2 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Submitted

ICC DB2TS Indexer logging improvements

Logfile Size and Number of Log Files: With the ICC DB2TS indexer it is not possible to configure the number of log files being written and the size of each log file. Currently only one trace file is being written with infinite size. In a high volu...
about 18 hours ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Submitted

BAW product DBUpgrade Scripts to support SSL enabled datasource

We are unable to establish connection to backend DB via SSL enabled datasource during DB upgrade script execution as a part of BAW version upgrade . It's a known limitation that upgrade tools connect to the database outside the AppServer context a...
2 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Enhance - Ability to have environment variables per baw server instance scoped

Possible environment variables baw server instance scoped instead of application-scoped, to allow for easier update of external services and others (endpoints, users, password, etc.) If the customer has more than 300 process apps which have a few ...
29 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Include all ODM Rule Designer plugins in all install methods

As it is, optional plugins must be installed from separate Rule Designer update sites as documented at the bottom of https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/odm/8.12.0?topic=designer-adding-rule-existing-eclipse. This causes extra work for clients and is comm...
3 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Submitted

All users can see who created a blueprint and who last modified it, over 90 days

Give all users the ability to view who created a blueprint and who last modified it, even it has past the current 90-day period. It is crucial to be able to see who created an existing blueprint so if another user has a process that overlaps or du...
21 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Differential/incremental migration support

Customers sometimes need to migrate their deployment environments to different hardware. In such cases, the migration can take a long time due to the large amount of data in the database. If the data migration takes a long time, production service...
17 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted