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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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Ability to delete records from single table in PDWDB

Currently REST API's allows to purge by date and cleans all the tables. We need few tables for months and few for days. So we should have ability to select individual tables to purge and provide dates.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

While Installing BPM the users/schemas are given DBA level access which causes security concerns

While Installing ISC which works on top on BAW/BPM . There are many privileges which are given to the 14 users created for the installation with oracle DB . All the priveleges are mentioned on the below link : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/22.x?...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Possibility of using shared libraries in a custom widget with case manager configuration tool

It would be great if a class that is available in BAW Server, such as shared libraries, could be shared across multiple widget or application and be included with the class loader to avoid duplication.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Improve BPM Generated Process documentation to include CSHS and other services

Our aim is to create a support guide for our application that is generated directly from the application configuration data, code and documentation fields. Its important that the support guide is created direct from source as we need it the guide ...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Request for Warning Icon to show in Tab Section label of UI Toolkit when the validation criteria is not met.

We are currently upgrading from BPM Responsive Coaches toolkit to BAW UI Toolkit, and noticed that upon validation, warning icons are missing in the labels of the Panels of a Tab Section which contain fields that still need to be filled out after ...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Allow users the ability to set the default number of tasks

Our users would like the ability to set a default number of tasks. Currently, saved searches allow them to select 25, 50 or 75 tasks per page. They would like that to be a part of their profile so that they do not need to reset it each day.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

OpenAPI compatibility: Ignore additional properties in REST responses

In OpenAPI, when additionalProperties is not specified for an object, the default behaviour is that any number of additional properties of any type are allowed.In typical implementations (for example Swagger Tools), the actual implementation simpl...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enhance BPMoC rest API to allow activation of snapshots

I need to automated deployment of applications to our BPMoC instance. I am able to use the REST APIs documented here https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFPJS_8.6.0/com.ibm.wbpm.ref.doc/covw_bspace_ref.html to export a snapshot from de...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

The function of "nesting business objects inside business objects" needs to be added to the case

The function of "nesting business objects inside business objects" needs to be added to the case. Similar to complex business objects in BPM, those created in case can be reused directly in BPM to improve development efficiency.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

apply icm.model.InbasketFilter after dynamic filter apply on click of In-basket tab

Our requirement is we want to apply icm.model.InbasketFilter after dynamic filter apply on click of In-basket tab. We tried to apply In-basket Filtering after a dynamic filter was applied, but this was conflicting due to wiring on the same event (...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration