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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,

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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Combining Purging procedures in IBM Business Automation Workflow for Indexing & Instances

IBM Business Automation Workflow Customer requirement is to combining the BPMProcessInstancesPurge command and the indexTablesCleanup command into one operation to avoid two steps and eliminate downtime
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BAW REST API JSON response date-time format

I cannot specify PMR because it does not accept Case format in the RFE form, can it be fixed btw? :), the Case for this is TS003220320 All the details are in the Case in question but for this particular RFE we'd like for all BAW REST APIs to be ab...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Can we compare two snapshot in Process Designer to check the details level of code

We would like to know if there is any way to compare two snapshots to understand the exact code changes to the lowest level.As far as we know, we can compare only the documentation but nothing else. If there is no way , please let us know if you h...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add bulk task reassign to REST API

The BPM REST API currently allows the reassignment of a single task, but is lacking a bulk task reassign. Customers wanting to reassign multiple tasks via the REST API need to loop over the list and call the API for each singe task. The task API (...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Coach View previews in the Process Designer should resolve variables

The web Process Designer incorporates preview files to improve the WYSIWYG view of the Coach layout. However, placing a coach view in a wrapper complicates the ability of the preview to work correctly. If a configuration option is promoted to the ...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Helper function to clear all validations in coach

We are using BPM 8.6.0 and would like to have a helper function to clear all the validations in the coach, something like bpmext.ui.clearInvalidViews() or bpmext.ui.resetInvalidViews() Currently, there is no simple way to do it. We need to use the...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Auto flow doesn't work from parent task to sub process task

The autoflow from process task to sub-process task doesn't work between two different teams having common users. Whereas the auto flow from one process task to next process task between two different teams works.Our process design involves multipl...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Invalidate the CSHS URL in Process Center based on exposure and archived flags

Currently, the CSHS URLs have the following pattern: PROTOCOL://HOST:PORT/teamworks/executecf?modelID=1.&branchID=2063..You can look up the PROCESS_ID and BRANCH_ID in LSW_PROCESS and LSW_BRANCH table to create the URL and access the CSHS. Thi...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Possibility to customize security configuration privileges

As a business user with law requirements to keep information for specific period of time we want to make sure that information is safe from deletion. Right now, REST API "delete case" is configured so user who has manage privilege on a case role i...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration