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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:

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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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  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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Provide a Machine Learning Provider configuration option for CP4D - Watson ML

CP4BA - ADS v22.0.2 provides the ability to integrate with a Watson ML configured / running on IBM Cloud. The authentication method for this integration relies on the API Key to retrieve a token to be able to consume a deployed service as document...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Role Process Application Administrators should be able to access environment variables of their process application in Process Admin Console

At VKB we are currently discussing the use of the role „Process Application Administrators“. Our understanding about such a role is different to how it is implemented in BAW. Users in the role „Process Application Administrators“ have the appropri...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enhance Viewer functionality

Currently In Blueworks live Viewers do not have the following functionality 1. Not able to export process maps as excel file( from folder level or from process) 2. Not able to do word export of the process maps 3. Details pane does not show meta d...
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Support for PFX Certificates in the HTTP Request Command

Currently, the HTTP Request command in IBM RPA does not support sending certificates, which prevents secure communication via mTLS. To address this limitation, we propose adding a feature that allows attaching PFX certificates directly in the HTTP...
11 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability of still using maintenance.admin after enabling SAML

Once you enable SAML, it's not possible to access Process Mining instance with maintenance.admin. This would be a good idea in case you have SAML configuration issues, because you'd still be able to access the product, without running through the ...
11 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Support BAW Designer for CNCF

Business Automation Workflow has been made available on CNCF Kubernetes clusters. However, it's nowhere documented that this does not cover the development environment (workflow center). For consistency, clients ask for a CNCF version of the devel...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

optimize the blank pages as loading page in BPM Process Portal

As discussed, we have closed the case no TS001047503 and came for RFE on optimizing the blank pages as loading page in BPM Process Portal.
about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Improve messages in CPE log to when access is denied to include the objectid

When troubleshooting access issue especially for developers to design assets it is very difficult to do without turning on security tracing. Here's an example CE_System0.log shows this message: 2024-07-31T08:19:28.743 0000018D ENG FNRCE0001E - ERR...
12 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Establish an efficient way to install fixes when customizations are involved

During the software upgrades to BPM/BAW, the recommended last environment to upgrade is ALWAYS going to be the Process Center. Process Center holds the production code repository, and once updated will not be able to support a production Process S...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

IBM FileNet CPE Option to Detect and Split-On-Upload and Merge-On-Download Large Files - Parallelize and Improve Upload/Download Performance

Content sizes continue to grow due to rich media like audio recordings, video recordings, large data and/or logging files, videos with transcriptions, documents with many pages including images and embedded content. An idea for IBM FileNet Content...
almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration