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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,

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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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Provide notification before LTPA token expires

Our Process Servers have been upgraded to BAW 20002. At this release, when the LTPA token expires, users are logged out without notice. In some cases end users have lost information entered into data fields.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improve handling of default values for configuration options of custom Coach Views

When a new custom Coach View (CV) is created, configuration options of various data types can be added. When the CV is placed on a coach layout, it appears that default values for the configuration options are set, however, these values are actual...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Move Wombat into IBM BPM

With the GDPR regulations now in place, IBM had to take the Wombat site down. Given that the code already exists, and that it runs in WAS, a logical and easy step would be to move this into Process Center! If Wombat came with Process Center custom...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add versioning utility to Case Manager

Our team uses IBM Case Manager for our solution - SEB Case. Through the experience working with IBM Case Manager's Case Builder we noted difficulties tracking the changes of solution especially after changes were committed. Therefore there are no ...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

References pane should be the same as any other panel

Currently, the Reference panel is not like "All" panel, "Processes" panel or any other artifact panel. There is no right click menu or triangle arrow pointing to right like there is on all other panels.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Audit Trail for BPM Process Admin

Due to statutory requirement, we are required to keep the audit trail of all activities performed by any administrators / users in the Process Admin console, including Date/Time, Host IP, User ID, Property / Item on which action performed, Action ...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

PFS able to federate multiple cells in different namespaces on the same cluster.

It is needed for PFS on Cloud Pak for Business Automation to be able to federate cells on-premise/traditional BAW and also other cells in different namespaces on the same cluster where PFS is instantiated. This has already been discussed with Seba...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Remove reliance on WAS 8.5.5

Many customers in the public space are mandated to use current versions of products. WAS is currently at version 9, but BAW requires WAS 8.5.5 creating a technical roadblock that requires a policy waiver and special attention by the security team.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Provide Revision History Feature in WebPD

This feature is available in Desktop PD but not available in WebPD. This can be very essential for the developers to see the change history and revert back the code to any prior change point.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BPM User and Team Reassignment and Attribute Enhancement

BPM very commonly requires complex user management and routing patterns. One of the most common is implementing a user attribute to be used with a Team Filter Service in order to provide complex assignment patterns for tasks within BPDs. These att...
about 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration