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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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Move Token API should prevent the move of a token on a top level process when there are active token in the sub processes

We had a condition in which a task in a sub process (2 nested level) was in a failed state. We moved the token on the parent process, and this break the execution tree of the process instance causing the process instance to be in an unmanageable s...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Move Wombat into IBM BPM

With the GDPR regulations now in place, IBM had to take the Wombat site down. Given that the code already exists, and that it runs in WAS, a logical and easy step would be to move this into Process Center! If Wombat came with Process Center custom...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improve handling of default values for configuration options of custom Coach Views

When a new custom Coach View (CV) is created, configuration options of various data types can be added. When the CV is placed on a coach layout, it appears that default values for the configuration options are set, however, these values are actual...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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 ...
8 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 ...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Export, import a community pattern

Export, import a community pattern: make it possible to provide other institutions with the construction of the pattern in BAW so that the establishment programmer does not need to develop everything within his institution. <Exporter, importer ...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration