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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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Add resource files to process variables

We would like to use localized resource files in our process models. Alternativley it would be useful to have a app-wide api for this. Like this: tw.system.getResourceByName("name", ("language"))
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

IBM BAW Webservices (Inbound webservices on BPD Layer) are not filtering SQL error when URL is manipulated

When we try to access an inbound web service ( exposed in BPD Layer) with a malformed URL , it prints SQL error to the calling client giving access to database details . There does not seem to be any way to control the SQL output (Potential for SQ...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Request for enhancement on BPM saved Search function

Based on current saved search feature, user can create saved searches without specify any application name, and this caused the saved search performance slow issue and also impact performance on DB level. So we request enhancement to add mandatory...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Application does not notify last login date and time

When a user logs into the application, the application does not display the last login time and date to the user. The last login time and date helps a user to verify that his account has not been accessed by someone else in an unauthorized way. Th...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Input Validation Missing

Input validations are required not only to stop some attacks on the application but also to stop wrong data being processed by the application. Server side input validations are important, when the client side validations are not there or could be...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

We are looking for type ahead search feature in Single select control of BPM UI toolkit for IBM Business Process Manager vers

We are looking for type ahead search feature in Single select control of BPM UI toolkit for IBM Business Process Manager version 8.5.7.201706
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

We are looking for date time control of BPM UI toolkit for IBM Business Process Manager version 8.5.7.201706

We are looking for date time control of BPM UI toolkit for IBM Business Process Manager version 8.5.7.201706 should allow user to type the date and move to next field using Tab key. The calendar shouldn't auto-populated on focus of the date time c...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

Descriptive Error Messages for BPM Document Upload Failures

This idea is related to improving the error messages that a user sees when they try to upload a document and the upload fails. Currently, there is only a generic "Upload failed" type error message. The generic error message that the upload failed ...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Providing funtionaility for Business Automation Workflow on Cloud users to extract reports of activted , invited but not activated , inactive users on BAW

The client needs a functionality to export the list of activated , inactivated and invited users for BAW. This will be helpful for keeping track of the users especially the ones who were invited but didn't activate their accounts. This will unbloc...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Planned for future release

Allow Button View to be disabled after click

Currently there is a bug/limitation that will immediately reenable a button after .setEnabled(false) is called from the button click event. We would use this functionally to disable a button so it cannot be clicked more than once (until an operati...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration