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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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Business Automation Workflow

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Docker support

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

Process portal - no calls to pfs requests when session is invalid

When you open a Process portal in the background you can see calls to PFS server. Sometimes our customer open process portal in many tabs. When the session is not longer valid the requests are still sending and always cause a errors. In the monito...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future 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

Allow activities to be renamed when created

In the case detail "Activities" tab we can have many activities of the same type and it is then difficult for users to find their way. It should be possible to rename / customize the label of the activities when they are created to make the list ...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 6 Functionality already exists

WEB PD does not evaluate Decision gateway complex Condition for Unknown Variable/Property.

WEB PD does not evaluate Decision gateway complex Condition for Unknown Variable/Property. Please refer attached screen shot of WEB and eclipse PD for same gateway Condition. WEB PD is error prone . Authors does not know if variable/property...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Decision Gateway wiring does not show next step name in WEB PD

Decision Gateway wiring does not show next step name in WEB PD. Its very convenient feature for Authors while updating/editing large flows with hundreds of steps where multiple wirings coming out from decision gateways. This feature is available i...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

An environment that only has ICN configured with Kerberos SSO, while everything is not configured with Kerberos SSO.

This will be useful for customer that wants to have an environment where ICN to be configured with Kerberos SSO and other products like BAW and CPE can be configured with other authentication methods such as basic authentication.
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under 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...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Reset search in "Cases" feature

When you open the "Cases" feature in ICN, you can filter the list of cases by adding search criteria, but if you want to return to the initial list, there is no "Reset" button and you must reload the entire desktop. The “Case” feature should have ...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Functionality already exists

XSS when upload pdf file

As mentioned in case TS015573818, I want to handle xss errors when uploading files from BAW to ECM via CMIS. --Updated Jun-13-2024-- Besides XSS errors, we also encountered similar errors when exploiting via request payload. I describe this pro...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration