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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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Support the ability to import schemas independently

Support the ability to import schemas. It seems that all objects have to be discovered from a service interface or manually defined. It would be helpful to be able to import a JSON or XML schema
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Separate Publisher and Editor Permissions In BlueWorksLive

On the manage users page, our team would like an additional category that will give administrators the option to give specific users the permission to publish separate from permission to edit in a space.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Delivered

Directly Support OAuth when invoking a REST service

Currently to use OAuth when invoking a REST service, you must use JavaScript as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/23.x?topic=service-invoking-rest It would be very useful to have OAuth directly supported like basic auth and API Key ...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Allow Setting custom inactivity timeout duration

If a user is in Blueworks but does not click on anything, they are shown a warning at the 60 minute (1 hour) mark that their session will time out in 5 minutes.If the user remains inactive for another 5 minutes, then the session times out at 65 mi...
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Delivered

Search option in Single select control

We require a search option in the SPARK UI single select control. The legacy controls based on the Dojo toolkit had the option of searching the dropdown values by typing .After migration our business users are facing issues and have to manually sc...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

Wrong before data on Task Assignments Added event

When we change the potential owners in a human task, we get the event generated making use of TaskLifeCycleEventListener interface implementation. But we are watching that we receive the same TaskEvent object in both before and after methods of th...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Delivered

Unable to identify the user who performs the abort action on a process instance

We have detected that at the time of performing an abort, from the business central or from the api, no information appears related to the user who has performed this action. Likewise, this information is not arriving in the emitter data. Every ac...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Delivered

Edit or remove comments on case

In the current version, a user can add a comment to a case but there's no possibilities in the UI to edit or remove this comment. In the API, the comment object can be edited or removed but this is not exposed to business users.
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Windows Active Directory Support

Add Windows Active Directory Support that is required for an ASCA-certified environment.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Delivered

Option to leave the comment bubble

Make the option available to leave the comment bubble visible even after has been read.
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Delivered