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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:

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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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  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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Show number of instances on a subprocess without having to drill down in Process Performance Diagram tab

Use case: When business users want to see the status and number of instances active for each subprocess at the top level The Process Portal Process Performance diagram tab shows the number of active instances for each activity in the Process App. ...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Set retention period via REST API call

Retention period for a case folder in ACCE can be set manually, but there is no REST API call available for that. Would it be possible to expose a REST API call for setting the Retention period and document it in the existing Case Manager REST API...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Request to update the "Validation errors and warnings view" if there is data mapping error in the service flow.

If there is error of data mapping in the client-side human service, the "Validation errors and warnings view" is updated to indicate its error.But, if there is error of data mapping in the service flow, the "Validation errors and warnings view" is...
8 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...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Is a defect

Add missing features from Traditional BAW environment System Data toolkit in Cloud Pak for Business Automation

Several features or components available in Traditional BAW - System Data toolkit are removed from the Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) System Data toolkit. CP4BA "System Data" toolkit has only SQL integration components available and doe...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

There should be a kind of BPM API to get business data of an instance and according to it, to get another business data (which is Instance ID).

Once a checkbox is selected, there should be a service called, so customer would like to get all the instance IDs that should have service working. Hence, they need to make a call, that takes all instances and checks whether particular checkbox is...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Remove Unafe-inline and unsafe-eval as required directivies in content secuity Policy Header

As Standard practice is advised to have content security header present in the response and not to have unsafe-inline or unsafe-eval directives present in this header values These unsafe directives could allow malicious script code to be included ...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Eliminate tablespace information for postgres in BAW on Containers

Customer: Discover Financial Services Product: Business Automation Workflow on Containers version : 22.x onwards DFS is using RDS Postgres Operator on AWS so we are not using the traditional postgres version, Cleanup is needed to keep required val...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Predefined schema creation setup in BAW on Containers

Customer: Discover Financial Services Product: Business Automation Workflow on Containers version : 22.x onwards DFS Postgres Design Pattern is to have schema creation is predefined step and should be created in advance with proper naming conventi...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Request For the WCAG 2.1 accessibility support for BAW , expecially the ‘out the box’ BAW coaches for example the Portal page

Hi BAW Product Dev. Team,Hope you are doing well Our key account - banking customer, have recently been conducting accessibly testing on the UI.They are testing against the WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards.They found that a small number of the ‘ou...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration