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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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All ideas

None of the links work in the trial version

It is a bug and fixing this might actually let someone be able to try
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Not under consideration

Ability to update external web service through Web PD

Interamerican would like to be able to update External Services created from YAML files from WebPD. Currently, there is no update capability of external services discovered from YAML files. In order to be able to update an external service, you ha...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

Add support for AWS Managed Microsoft AD service for Business Automation Workflow (BAW) on Containers (not CP4BA).

We are an IBM partner, and our long-term IBM Case Management Federal customer is migrating from IBM Case Manager, users in AWS Managed Microsoft AD service, on a Linux environment to Containers on AWS. The customer does not need the full BAW capab...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

View on the dates of the process

When filtering for a single practice, it would be useful to see the timestamp of individual activities in the model page in order to avoid to download a CSV to do analysis on the individual case.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Functionality already exists

Ability to convert a Subprocess in to normal activities (part of the main diagram)

We have raised a request to Create sub processes by multi-selecting items shown in the process diagram, also vice versa , which is , convert a sub process in to normal activities ( which will become the part of the main diagram).
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live Future consideration

Entry template versioning settings should get respect by edit service. edit service should not not always refer last checked in version type (major/minor).

Customer have use cases where users doesn't use checkin/checkout option but rely heavily on edit service. They also have settings to let user always create minor version and only from the workflow they create major version. so in this case if a us...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator Future consideration

Enhance display documents in current Window when using open configuration option to display the documents as separate tabs for Filenet.

Enhance current Navigator desktop configuration option 'When using the Open and Preview actions, display documents in the current window' to open all the selected documents as separate tabs in the current Window, including the Daeja Virtual Viewer...
almost 3 years ago in Content Navigator Future consideration

Pdf Option For Process Export API

For the API call …/bwl/blueprints/{blueprint-id}/export… add the option of PDF for parameter Format.
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live Future consideration

CHDBPrune tool to support Case State property

Currently, CHDBPrune tool only take string value. An OOTB Case State provided by Case Manager is using integer instead of string. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/case-manager/5.3.3?topic=comibmcasemgmtapiconstants-casestate It would be great if CHDBPr...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Capability to have JWT authentication for BPM REST Endpoints as provider for consumer applications

Capability to have JWT authentication for BPM REST Endpoints as provider for consumer applications. Currently it is Basic Authentication but since majority of the enterprise are on more robust authentication patterns such as JWT, it will make more...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow Functionality already exists