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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).


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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:

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 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
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...

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Exception Handling Enhancements

We propose the following key enhancements to the platform's exception handling capabilities. Command-Level Exception Handling Built-in Retry Options: Add built-in options within individual commands to retry operations in case of exceptions, with c...
4 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

REST calls via proxy

Add functionality to set up proxy for REST calls in BPMRESTRequest ()
4 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Modify Deployment Configuration on Closed Release

Allow deployment configuration files to be modified in a closed release so that we can deploy to other environments that may not have been selected in the original deployment configuration. As of today, we have to create a new release to do this,...
17 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Under review

Option to disable 'ADVANCED COMPRESSION' on Case History store level even though the capaibility is available on Oracle DB server level.

Case History store automatically use function 'ADVANCED COMPRESSION' when it is available (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1097385). If the Case History store is configured to use an Oracle database and the Oracle server has ADVANCED compre...
17 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Increase character Limit for USER_NAME value in lsw_user_xref table to 113

Microsoft AD UPN has a character limit of 113 and IBM BAW lsw_usr_xref table has character limit of 64 characters. usernames with characters more than 64 cannot be properly configured on IBM BAW. An increase in char Limit to 113 as Active director...
13 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Process instance migration when moving from traditional to container

IBM has a tool to migrate instances when it is traditional to traditional.The idea is a similar tool, however, to a different platform. Tool must perform a process instance migration from traditional to container platform.
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Feature enhancement request for Content Manager API to support multi-threading.

We have been consistently experiencing issue with ICN which is related to how the application is utilized. It looks like users are opening multiple browser sessions when using ICN which in turn are creating web container threads deadlocks. These a...
2 months ago in Content Manager (CM8) 1 Under review

Allow CSV mapping through API

We are currently trying to build an automated option for creating projects. For now, the only part we can't automate is the CSV mapping (we've already explored the option of using an IDP file, but we can only create an IDP after creating a project...
19 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Customer's Plugins do not work anymore when activating the new CSP support for removeUnsafeEval and removeUnsafeInline

Please refer to ICN Forums here for details: https://github.ibm.com/ECM-Forums/icn-internal-forum/issues/181 A customer's Development team opened a Case with the following Problem Description: ===================================================We ...
about 2 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

IBM Process Mining Simulation with Parallelism

Currently, Parallelism is not supported for the simulation engine in IBM Process Mining. The customer wants it included in IBM Process Mining to analyze such type of processes.
23 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration