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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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BPMoC Process Monitor does not allow user to select a certain node

When viewing the Process Monitor through the Process Admin console, the server is automatically selected for the user. However, there can be multiple servers that need to be viewed. The user has no way of selecting which server they want to view, ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Add Execution Evaluator to Web PD

Execution Evaluator is currently available in the Desktop Process Designer but has been deprecated in Web Designer. With the release of BAW, Desktop Process Designer is going away with no replacement for the Execution Evaluator.
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Case Manager 5.3.3 Not updating security on deployment

When a case manager solution has users/permissions added to the role, and the security manifest is applied to the solution, these roles are not getting added/removed to/from the folder in the target object store : Root Folder\IBM Case Manager\Solu...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Add Oauth2 Support to Email Server Connections

Microsoft has announced that starting October 1, 2022, basic authentication will be turned off for specific protocols in Exchange Online (link). Since this change will break many email integrations, IBM RPA needs to release Oauth2.0 support for th...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Ability to update custom process properties via APIs

The OpenPages team wants to be able to publish key risk and control information into Blueworks Live using the REST APIs. Only a retrieve API is available for ProcessData.
almost 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Delivered

Add "No Selection" item to Single Select when Using Items from Service

We are looking for a way to add a "No Selection" item to the beginning of a List Items Service used by UI elements such as Single Select when "Item lookup mode" is "Items from Service" Example: We have a List Items service that returns a list of u...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Allow to change Entry Template during check-in

We currently use one Entry Template per document class for adding documents to a case, but once the user defines the Entry Template, it is locked in place upon document creation. If the user then wants to change the class of the document, he can n...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

Add "Reassign back to team" back to Process Portal similar to Heritage Process Portal

When migrating from BPM 8.5.6 to BPM 8.6 and using the new Process Portal our users noticed that the function “Reassign back to team” is not available from the menu when a user has an open tasks.Users need to go to View instance and then to reassi...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Keep Comment Notifications on Process Maps Until Deleted

Keep the notification bubble with the number of comments on an activity within the process map until the comments are deleted. Currently that number and notification go away after viewing the comment. This causes comments to be left in the process...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Delivered

JMS MQ Support in Workflow Container

We need to define JMS MQ artifacts for our process application (like it was possible in traditional installation pattern). The workflow-server image useswebProfile7, as we checked through command featureManager featureList, it does not contain fea...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered