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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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The "Set User Authentication" option is not available in WebPD when you remote debug into a PS.

Set User Authentication option is missing when process is run/debugged from remote process server. This option is used to run/debug human task with another test user id. Please refer PMR - TS006594335 for more details. It has videos & everythi...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Request to add option to allow editting business data in completed instance for admin user

Customer keeps saving completed instances for a long term from a company audit perspective. In business data of process instances, customer adds organization information for user management. After instances are completed, organization in customer’...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 6 Functionality already exists

User management trail functionality for system auditing

Many BAW user companies are required to prepare SOC report (System and Organization Controls) on a regular basis. The report should include when users and groups in the system were created, when they were deleted, etc. In the BAW, users are often ...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Process Inspector: alphanumerical sorting the list of installed snapshots

In the left sidebar of the Process Inspector you can filter the instances based on certain Process App snapshots. The list of installed Process Apps are sorted, but for each Process App, the list of snapshots is not. (On some environments they see...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Access hot pilot screens

Access hot pilot screens: provide customizable indicators (by number, by percentage, by histogram) for users in BAW's hot piloting. They would make it possible to manage their activities. These indicators created could be made public by the creato...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Creation of the motif

Creation of the motif: be able to delegate to establishments the creation of a motif (for example a private motif within their establishment) without the need to use code. <Création du motif : pouvoir déléguer aux établissements la création d'u...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Triggering without treatment commitment

Triggering without treatment commitment: trigger a task without treatment commitment. This option is available when creating the pattern at each step of each task when setting up. <Déclenchement sans engagement de traitement : déclencher une tâ...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Management of forms

Form management: allow the programmer to manage the forms (ex input form) in the user settings interface (example for an agency request, allow to set up input fields, conditioned fields, sections, drop-down lists, etc.) <Gestion des formulaires...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

Manage workflow versions (Brouillons, test, PRD)

Manage workflow versions (Brouillons, test, production): allow the programmer to have a sandbox to test the workflow in the different environments (e.g. assembly, production etc.) before delivering the workflow to the user. <Gérer les versions ...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Define a mode for automatically closing or not a workflow

Define a mode of automatic closing or non-automatic closing of a workflow: have the possibility to render an automatic closure in the tool (for example if in 5 days the workflow is not processed, the workflow closes automatically). <Définir un ...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration