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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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Workplace - Restrict views creation to certain users only

Workplace views can currently be created by any user. Views creation should be restricted to certain users only (right based on a group).
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Workplace - Views modifiable/deletable by a "manager" group

Workplace views are currently only editable/deletable by the users who created them. The views should be modifiable/deletable by managers (right based on a group)
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Time-based filter for Swagger "/bpm/processes" and "/bpm/user-tasks" APIs.

Swagger "/bpm/processes" and "/bpm/user-tasks" APIs can retrieve and get a list of process and task instances with instance data. These APIs can get instance data with "optional_parts=data". So, the results can be used as audit data of instances f...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Search through code in application

The product would be greatly enhanced by having a simple search-option, to find where specific code is used. Would also be great if it supported RegEx. It would be plenty enough if it was usable to find code in Javascript/InputOutput bindings, and...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

CSHS - Allow Multiple outgoing connections from nested services.

In CSHS nested services, currently we are allowed to have multiple end events. But the limitation of having only single outbound connection prevents us from directly mapping those connections. Due to this, We have to use a decision gateway and dec...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Use GIT or Artifactory for Process Snapshots instead of Workflow Center

Use GIT or Artifactory for Process Snapshots instead of Workflow Center
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

MQ integration using integration.jar

Hi, We are trying to BAW with MQ i.e. trigger process in BAW when messages arrive on queue. We are using jmsIntegration.jar. The api's available in this jar allows reading only one message at a time. Since we want to try avoiding long running loop...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to change default sorting of documents attached to a case

When users rely on document attachments for work on cases, they may need to sort them on other fields than the document name.
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Functionality already exists

Establish an efficient way to install fixes when customizations are involved

During the software upgrades to BPM/BAW, the recommended last environment to upgrade is ALWAYS going to be the Process Center. Process Center holds the production code repository, and once updated will not be able to support a production Process S...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

Retain column width and sorting changes on Process Portal

Our business representatives have requested to have Process Portal retain latest changes to column widths and sorting on saved searches, on a per-user basis. The inability to do this causes steps to be repeated frequently and is frustrating to the...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration