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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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CHANGE REQUEST - Interface WorkBasketDefinition

Our team uses the interface WorkBasketDefinition to users management in the workbaskets. However, we have a time out problem when the workbasket has a big list of users. The effort is large but we hope to do this in a future release as explained h...
over 10 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 7 Not under consideration

Web PD: Ability to switch between snapshots when connected to online Workflow Server

In our BAW environment, our Dev team can connect to online Workflow servers and debug the instances. However, if we need to switch between snapshots: 1. We will have to navigate out of Web PD process inspector 2. Select the application and a new s...
15 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Use a newer version of Javascript in BAW

JAVASCRIPT ES5 is currently used by BAW. In order to manage sequential calls and integrate client javascript modules, we'll need to use a newer version of Javascript
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

See task details of a task assign to my teammates

As a simple member of a team (no manager), I want to see all the tasks of the team (even those who are assigned to other users). I also want to see task detail of tasks assigned to a teammate (no actions available, but information displayed)
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Allow Case workitem email notifications to open the item directly so the user can review and take action

Current email notification links direct the user to the in-basket instead of the worktime they need to process.
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Functionality already exists

Add merge cells feature in Table view for BAW

According to client business requirements, they are looking for merge cells feature in Table view (UI toolkit) based on some column data within the table.
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Snapshot deployment PALException should be more meaningful

Problem description: Snapshot deployment / installation always throw generic PALException exceptions and not the actual cause of the issue. You need to dig through logs to find the actual cause of the problem Improvement Proposal: Instead of the g...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Cache the Solution information when the Solution is deployed

When a user logs on to Case Client, ICMAPIPlugin GetSolutionInformation is called to get the Solution information such as Case Types and Case properties. When user accesses Work page for Inbaskets, another same call is for Task Properties. So if t...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow re-link of BO types in REST and Web service

If discovered BOs needed in another context may BOs are moved to a toolkit for reusability. Currently isn't possible to change link in BOs in discovered services.
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration