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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 the officially support for Git as software configuration management systems in IBM Integration Designer.

IBM Integration Designer has officially support about only Concurrent Versions System (CVS) and Rational Team Concert (RTC) as software configuration management systems.Git is considered a common software configuration management systems, could yo...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

No Code environment to define workflows

Summary Web Process Designer environment is too complex to create a process for a persona with limited technical skills. There is a need for a much simpler No Code tool to configure workflows from pre-defined project-specific components that can b...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

support for Long type (or equivalet)

BPM is a widely used product, which integrates with many different systems. Long type is also a widely used data type, which many systems use and send/receive.BPM must support such a common type, in order for the integration with all the other sys...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Make it possible to set TaskAtRiskDate

Our customer is using the TaskAtRiskDate to determine which tasks needs to get immediate attention.A task at risk date which is calculated with historical duration of other tasks is useless for them.This needs to be calculated by logic which can d...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Field Validation required enhancement on Plain-Text contro

Plain text display error even after correcting the value with valid data. Scenario: If a text field already has a pre-populated value. The user clicks on the text field and enters an invalid input that does not match the defined regular expression...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Is a defect

Vault Integration for Postgres RDS Creds in BAW on Container

Customer: Discover Financial Services Product: Business Automation Workflow on Containers version : 22.x onwards Discover Financial Services Design Pattern is to have postgres credentials in vault and pods can fetch the credentials through init co...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

VDS / OUD should be supported on BAW on Container versions

Customer: Discover Financial Services Product: Business Automation Workflow on Containers version : 22.x onwards We are looking for Virtual Directory Server / OUD support on BAW on Container since DFS is using either VDS / OUD. The BAW current ins...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide Revision History Feature in WebPD

This feature is available in Desktop PD but not available in WebPD. This can be very essential for the developers to see the change history and revert back the code to any prior change point.
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Workplace - Allow configuration of a default view

Workplace allows you to define custom views but does not allow you to define a default view per user group and/or per desktop. The default view used when opening Workplace should be configurable by user group and/or by desktop.
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Refactor the Input and output mapping for Processes

You recently changed the way we assigned input/output data to a System Task while designing a Process. But honestly this is not good at all : it's a complete waste of time to work with the new design. 1) you cannot see the input/output data of the...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration