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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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"Run now" scheduled UCA in the Workflow Server

There is "Run Now" button in the Workflow Center. It is an easy way to manually run scheduled UCA.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=agents-creating-configuring-undercover-agent-scheduled-message-event However, the Workflow Server environm...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Activate case-insensitivity in TWSearch

TWSearch API is case sensitive. So for example the search result for "customer= ibm " will be completely different than for "customer= IBM " which is creating confusion sometimes while searching and It would be easy if there is a setting to Activa...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow Component Queue Adapter user credentials to be changed via automation

Current functionality of Case Manager and FileNet Workflow Component Queue Adapters allow you to change the user credential via ACCE in a manual fashion. For companies that have security policies that require strong passwords and periodic password...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add Token ID and BPD ID to the Task Summary REST API

We have situations where we need to move the token back from a particular task. This requires combing through the out of the Bulk Instance Details to find the Token ID and the BPD ID in order to call the Move Token API Call. The bulk call is a hea...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

As a user I want to automatically filter the In-basket based on the Logged in Users "Profit Center"

("Profit center" represent the logged-in user’s organization belonging/or branch office location for the logged in user). An Idea of solution: The logged in User (Profile) in Case Client should be able to add(configure) on one or more strings for ...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add Merge & Split action on Document Widget from Case Client

From the document widget in the case client, the business user can't make a merge and split on a document because the action in the context menu is not implemented. This function is available in the "browse" section.
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

Improve Browser Debugger Support

The ability to debug Views is essential in non trivial Coach implementations. There are limitations as described in: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS8JB4_20.x/com.ibm.wbpm.wle.editor.doc/topics/tcf_viewdebughs.html The generated c...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Planned for future release

Update Language in Federated Cells when user changes in Master Cell in Responsive Portal

The Responsive Portal when is working in Federation Mode has limitations when the user changes the language in Profile. The Language is updated in Cell where is running the Responsive Portal but doesn't update all cell federated, this creates a ba...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Listener for MQ messages

This is a request for enhancement. Our requirement is to trigger BPM processes when a message is received in a queue. There is a OOTB api available in integration.jar(System toolkit) to read message from queue, but there is no active listening or ...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

How to automatically retrieve team/user/group permissions and authority that are defined individually for each Process App as a list in a batch.

Right now, the configuration is visually checked for each Process App (snapshot) from Designer, which makes it difficult to make simple comparisons and prone to errors.For example, we would like a way to automatically extract settings and permissi...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration