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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).
8 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)
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Docker support

Docker support for BPM-AdvancedOnly (to run SCA modules).
about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under 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...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Delete Snapshots and Orphan Toolkits

Too many steps necessary to do housekeeping and managing the complex BPM applications that Commerzbank is deploying e.g. to delete a snapshot you first have to fire a REST call to get all snapshot names from the application... then you have to che...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to retain column re-sort and re-sizing in Workplace

In the Heritage Portal, a user was able to resort columns, claim a task and return to the saved search list. When they returned, the columns still maintained the sort that was in place prior to claiming the task. In the new Responsive Portal, the ...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Getting process instances from production to a test environment

We would like to copy process instance and data from one environment to another. * Extract process instances for a given process from source environment (PS1)* Get that process instances into a target environment (PS2), with the same version of th...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Combining Purging procedures in IBM Business Automation Workflow for Indexing & Instances

IBM Business Automation Workflow Customer requirement is to combining the BPMProcessInstancesPurge command and the indexTablesCleanup command into one operation to avoid two steps and eliminate downtime
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

"Active Processes Currently Executing" table in Process Monitor should have a filtering feature specified date and time.

The paging feature on the "Active Processes Currently Executing" in Process Monitor only allows moving from one page to the other. This becomes tedious where there are many pages of processes. There should be a feature where customers can filter a...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

REST calls via proxy

Add functionality to set up proxy for REST calls in BPMRESTRequest ()
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration