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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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Business Automation Workflow

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JS API to update BPD instance variables

For CSHS development you normally map input and output data, but due to security concerns this is not safe as the data could be tampered while flowing over the wire. Therefore we need an approach to directly update the process instance variables v...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Default values getting wiped out

Any Heritage coaches if opened in Web PD, the 'has defaults' in the GSS/SF that is invoked in Heritage coach should be retained. It gets wiped out.
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

URL for artifacts in BAW application

It would be nice to have a link to an artifact in BAW application. This would enable developers to bookmark artifacts, share URL(s) with colleagues and so on.
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Oracle DB Support AL16UTF16 character set for BPM NCHAR character set

support NCHAR character set AL16UTF16 on Oracle Databases. per Oracle doc https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/NLSPG/ch6unicode.htm#NLSPG317 AL16UTF16 This is the default character set and recommended for SQL NCHAR data types. This character set e...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow copy and paste of default values in PD

When you have a complex variable and select to fill in default values, you cannot copy those values for unknown reasons. Copy and paste by keyboard shortcut or selection in menu is not possible.
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Functionality to cut/copy past Images to Rich text area

Current Rich text area don't have the cut/copy pages that is adding more work to the users who recently migrated to BPM.Salient has added this features in the new toolkit and provided to us directly. But that is not part of BPM 8.6 product yet. Co...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Add image and table into Dialog control

Through the Dialog Control I wanted to add a popUp in the coach. I inserted an image but this image didn't appear in the popup. It only accept the title and subtitle, buttons. I believe that some image should be useful to be shown for example (war...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Create Portlet from the Client Side Human Service exposed as dashboard

Desktop Process Designer - Heritage Human Service exposed as Dashboard has option to "Create Portlet". Is it possible to have "create portlet" option from Client Side Human Service exposed as dashboard
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Infinite scroll for large data

The table in BPM should support infinite scroll for large data sets with the mouse scroll triggering next page.
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to change password using API or rest service

Feature : Password change for IBM BPM process center and IBM BPM Process server using API or restful service
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration