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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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Business Automation Workflow

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Search tasks according to functional metadatas

We need a REST API that allow to search BPM process tasks according to functional metadatas that are declared on tasks. For now, we are juste able to find, calling REST API, processes and then loop on all tasks of this process.
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Make it possible to set TaskAtRiskDate

Our customer is using the TaskAtRiskDate to determine which tasks needs to get immediate attention.A task at risk date which is calculated with historical duration of other tasks is useless for them.This needs to be calculated by logic which can d...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Store last user logged in datetime information.

right now there is no data about last login datetime for BPM users Store last user logged in datetime information.
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow Case workitem email notifications to open the item directly so the user can review and take action

Current email notification links direct the user to the in-basket instead of the worktime they need to process.
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Get the timeline of a process

We need to get the timeline of the process to know what append and when
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Tag a task or process as urgent

Gives the possibility to tag a task or process as urgent so we can filter, search and view things to do urgently
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Needs more information

Needs of comments historized and cumulatives

When accessing comments, we need a timeline of all comments concerning a workflows or a task to get an overviews of exchanges concerning the subject
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Control exposure for REST Automation Service from admin console

there is no way to remove exposure for a REST Automation service similar to Web Service Killian.Byrne (IBM) Jan 30, 2024, 15:08 Hi Amr, Thanks for joining me on the call today. I created a service flow yesterday and created an exposed automation r...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Increase the Integer Variable limit in BAWoC

Hi Team, Integer is one of the most important field where we use it to input Tax amount and our users are frequently using higher limit compared to allowed limit(2147483647 and -2147483647). It would be a great idea to increase this limit by double
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Purging the active process instances based on date criteria

We would like to do bulk purge/delete/terminate the active process instances, which are modified by certain date. We can do the smaller amount of processes in the Process Inspector. But we have around 1 million active processes, which are modified...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration