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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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Request to add option to allow editting business data in completed instance for admin user

Customer keeps saving completed instances for a long term from a company audit perspective. In business data of process instances, customer adds organization information for user management. After instances are completed, organization in customer’...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 6 Functionality already exists

Management of forms

Form management: allow the programmer to manage the forms (ex input form) in the user settings interface (example for an agency request, allow to set up input fields, conditioned fields, sections, drop-down lists, etc.) <Gestion des formulaires...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

Request switch option to only show FILE item for "Add" button in "BPM Document List".

"Add" button is available in "BPM Document List" if "Allow create" is enabled. BPM Document List - IBM Documentation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=toolkit-bpm-document-list---Allow updates - Allow files in the list to be updated.--- W...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

ICM - Documents Filter does not work together with Sort

Affected componentIBM Case Manager Solution / Case Information widget DescriptionCase Information widget is essential part of IBM Case Manager, that allows user to see overview of case. One of main parts of this widget is a Documents section used ...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Functionality already exists

We are looking auto selection feature if there is only one value in the selection list of single select control of bpmui tool

We are looking auto selection feature if there is only one value in the selection list of single select control of bpmui toolkit.
about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Package IID 8.5.7 with Windows 10 compatible DB2 (for UTE)

Our team uses IID with UTE. As we are moving to Windows 10, we need a version of IID that is compatible with Windows 10. IID 8.5.7 is compatible with Windows 10 but the UTE needs DB2. The DB2 currently packaged with IID 8.5.7 is not comptatible wi...
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Capability to have JWT authentication for BPM REST Endpoints as provider for consumer applications

Capability to have JWT authentication for BPM REST Endpoints as provider for consumer applications. Currently it is Basic Authentication but since majority of the enterprise are on more robust authentication patterns such as JWT, it will make more...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Functionality already exists

Open a tab like in Navigator

It is not possible to reproduce the behavior of content navigator when a case is opened, a new tab is opened with the case informations. It is not possible to have the same behavior in a view, meaning when the user clicks on a link, a new tab will...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Modularize the Case tab in a way that allows some components to be hidden.

The customer needs an easy and quick way to make some items/options, like properties, unavailable to some users to avoid human error. CPFL created a ticket asking for assistance with this, but the support team suggested an RFE or customization due...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Functionality already exists

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 ...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 6 Functionality already exists