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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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Unknown variables not marked as validation errors

We have the following scenario in the Web Process Designer: The development team usually needs to perform maintenance, cleaning and restructuring of the different ProcessApps, depending on the business requirements. For this we obviously need to ...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add OR option to portal saved search filters

Our internal customers have asked us to provide a way to allow filters using OR when defining saved searches. They have told us of situation where this would be helpful, such as task subject contains Build or task subject contains Verify This c...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Process Portal - Logged In User Status

We have a Business Requirement to identify active and inactive users of Process Portal and when they last logged in. As of now, there is no provision in BAW to capture this info. This request is to persist login details of the User whenever they l...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support Kerberos with BPMConfig

Install and upgrade of Business Automation Workflow environments requires use of BPMConfig command with a properties file; the properties file references user identities and database connections and requires passwords. We need to support use of Ke...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Nested toolkit dependency upgrade

In multi level nesting of toolkits making a change in the leaf toolkit requires an upgrade of all dependency toolkits. The process of doing this is extremely tedious for 2 reasons:1) Each toolkit at each level needs to be opened upgraded and new s...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

View all workflow instance in Workplace

Hi Team, Client found Workplace only retrieves BPM process&Workstream. In order to convenient users to manage all work in one place, can we consider adding FileNet workflow into Workplace? Thank you!
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add Start Date to TWSearchColumn.ProcessInstanceColumns

We have found that we often want to build TWSearches using instance start date as a value. Current state: We need to either expose a start date variable, or use a REST call to get the start date (not very efficient). Having startDate added to the ...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Request to view and change the business data for the linked and sub Processes scope via the Process Inspector

While trying to update the Data variables. We don't see all the data variables in the Process Inspector console. Like for example there is a field for EMails to be sent in the environment variable but this cant be seen under the Edit Data for this...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support Selection Simple type

Support Selection Simple type
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Add the possibility to set Monday as first day at calendar at BAW's form

We would like to set Monday as first day at calendar at BAW's form. This is possible at ICN pages, but not at BAW's form.
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration