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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,

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  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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Deployment of Common Services in the same namespace as CP4BA

With a dedicated installation of Common Service (i.e. one CS deployment per CP4BA deployment) we have to deploy CS in a dedicated namespace and with dedicated cp-console route. In order to reduce the amount of configuration at the OCP and reverse ...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Delivered

Ask for automatic column resize activation in BC

In Business Console, Column Auto-Resize modus is not adapted to very very large decision tables and is default activated. In addition, reorganize all sizes once the table is opened is time consuming.
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Delivered

BPM should upgrade logging framework from log4j to log4j2

BPM is still using log4j version 1. Version 2 has been out for a few years now and has performance improvements and other improvements in it. The logger configuration file has a different syntax in version 2.
about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Email task notifications for caseless tasks should point to WorkDashboard or WorkPlace and not ProcessPortal

Automatic email notifications for BAW applications, which include case functionality, contain a link redirecting Case Client or WorkDashboard depending on whether the task is part of an activity or not. However, for caseless BAW applications, emai...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

Allow subfolder creation via the "Document Explorer" widget

We can use the "Document Explorer" widget in case tasks but if we point to a case subfolder, then it is not possible to create a lower level subfolder. Subfolder creation should be possible at any level and not only at parent case folder level.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Functionality required to extract a report with list of maps along with the archived date (all spaces)

Functionality required to extract a report with list of maps along with the archived date (all spaces) This report will help us to clean up the Blue works diagrams by deleting diagrams which are no longer required by the business
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Delivered

Add the Ability to View Previous Snapshots and the Copy to Tip Functionality to Web Designer

In desktop designer, we can view processes and service implementations of prior snapshots. We also have a copy to tip functionality. If we find that we need to go back to a prior version of a process or service implementation, we can go to the sid...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Hiding Saved Search from Process Portal

We want to create the saved searches and expose them to users group so it can be used in the custom Inbox. But we do not want to show those saved searches to the users in the Portal.
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Easily manage snapshots with REST API (delete and rename)

Our ODM implementation requires a full autonomy for our users in managing/testing/deploying rules. A baseline is created each time a user deploy rules into test environment. When deploying into production environment, we extract ruleset thanks to ...
over 2 years ago in Operational Decision Manager 5 Delivered

"Added by" filter uses all the user from the LDAP

When searching cases by the property « Added by “, a field is shown to help choose the proper user. But the field search is linked to all the users from the LDAP, even if the users are not allowed to used Case Management. We are expecting that "Ad...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered