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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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BPM ENvironment Dashboard

We would like to see a Dashboard that shows how our environment is performing over the month/6 months etc. CPU utilization, Calls per hours, Peak Load times etc. This is going to be of immense help as we plan on bringing in more users/use cases to...
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under 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!
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Auto flow doesn't work from parent task to sub process task

The autoflow from process task to sub-process task doesn't work between two different teams having common users. Whereas the auto flow from one process task to next process task between two different teams works.Our process design involves multipl...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

WEB PD does not maintain last open session/page like eclipse PD and default always to process app tab

WEB PD does not maintain last page session like eclipse PD and default always to process app tab. For example : When you click on "back to workflow center" it always go to process app tab even you were in toolkits tabs last time or opened a toolki...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Select wrong workspace

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about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Upgrade BAW \ WAS to run Java 11

Please upgrade BAW to use a newer version of Java. Java 1.8 is very old and does not integrate with Datadog APM \ tracing. Java 1.8 is also very inefficient compared to 1.11. Newer versions of Java would help improve our services to our customers.
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Ability to update external web service through Web PD

Interamerican would like to be able to update External Services created from YAML files from WebPD. Currently, there is no update capability of external services discovered from YAML files. In order to be able to update an external service, you ha...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Request to support multiple upload documents in BAW

Our business have a requirement on multiple upload documents in BAW like the screenshot show in attachment, they need to select multiple documents in one go to improve their operation performance. this will be great helpful for their daily work.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Not under consideration

MS SQL Server with jdbc > 10.2

It appears that MS SQL jdbc drivers > 10.2 have a change in behaviour related to ssl. The command BPMConfig -validate -db c:\IBM\bawinst\PC\Advanced-PC-ThreeClusters-SQLServer.properties fails with the following error CWMCB0313E: An error occur...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Truly readonly Views

When a View in BAW has READONLY visibility it has a disabled HTML attribute set. This attribute causes that the content of View cannot be selected and copied in FireFox which is a supported browser. This RFE aims to either change the disabled HTML...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration