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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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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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  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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We need support of complex type WSDL in WebPD

The XSD type schema included in the WSDL uses the construct of derived complex objects in many places. It builds a complex type hierarchy where both the base types and the derived types are used in parallel.As per ticket TS002481263BPM Standard ha...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

backport functionality which was added to version 20.0.0.02 of have execution evaluator run on workflow server

in an open case we had about not being able so run execution evaluator from the web designer to run javascript commands against the workflow server , which does exsist in the desktop desinger. we were told that this feature will be added to the we...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Content Objects cannot be selected as mappings for an RPA Task

In BAW 19.0.0.2, if you have a Case Activity referencing a BPM Process, then you also have Content Objects that reference the Case properties. If you add an RPA task to this BPM Process, you cannot select the content objects as mappings to the tas...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Include customizable gamification framework integrated into Cloud Pak for Business Automation

Looking at gamification, there is currently no standard and research shows individual perspectives rather than implementation steps or best practices. The sooner IBM claims this flag, the further ahead we'll be from any other future competitors. A...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

BWL Custom Color Palette Enhancements

The custom color palette has to be created and updated by an Admin user (so, someone in Chris & Jamil’s organization) A custom color palette will only show colors to which a label has been assigned. There is no option to select only the colors...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under consideration

BlueWorks Inbound Process Links

The 'start task' (circle) in a process map should show links to all processes that can invoke the process (i.e. the list of processes that are currently listed in the 'where used' feature) in the same way as 'linked processes'. The exports (partic...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Not under consideration

Add Configuration Option to Only Keep a Finite Number of History Versions

Every time a decision model is saved, a new version is created, and there are currently no automated ways to delete old or unneeded versions. This is also true for ODM artifacts.
almost 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Need an option to define virtual categories

We have a use case to split a ruleset into multiple rulesets to reduce the complexity and also to execute the multiple rulesets in parallel and asyc based on the requirement for the same category. We will execute the rulesets for the same checkpoi...
almost 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Not under consideration

MS Word Export Improvements

MS Word export has several improvement opportunities which I will consolidate into this ticket as follows: 1) Decision Model and Matrix option to include this within the exported MS Word documentation 2) Legend needs to be captured with included m...
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 5 Not under consideration

edição de arquivos do repositório diretamente do studio do WDG

edição de arquivos do repositório diretamente do studio do WDG, sem a necessidade de baixar o arquivo, talvez numa instância web de git, para que o trabalho colaborativo nos robôs seja mais ágil.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration