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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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Sorting in BPM

Main Function: The filter in BPM needs to be extended to support multiple column sorting, the columns that can be sorted should be configurable and retrieved from a service with display and column names. The server-side customization of each servi...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Integration with Sharepoinrt 365

There is a need to integrate a business process engine with document management systems. This is recognized and we integrate through CMIS. We are observing a shift in the market of vendors relying on other sets of API or proprietary APIs. Sharepoi...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

"teamworks.Mail" allows "," as a part of file name of several attachment files.

"teamworks.Mail" don't allows "," as a part of file name of several attachment files. If "teamworks.Mail" is able to use "," as a character in the file name, it will improve the convenience of using "teamworks.Mail".
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support running BAW on z/OS either natively or using a container.

We are currently using BPM on our z/OS systems and we want to migrate to BAW for this. The backend systems that our developers use are CICS, MQ and DB2 all running on our z/OS systems. So we would like to install BAW on z/OS either natively or run...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

We are looking for type ahead search feature in Single select control of BPM UI toolkit for IBM Business Process Manager vers

We are looking for type ahead search feature in Single select control of BPM UI toolkit for IBM Business Process Manager version 8.5.7.201706
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

We are looking for date time control of BPM UI toolkit for IBM Business Process Manager version 8.5.7.201706

We are looking for date time control of BPM UI toolkit for IBM Business Process Manager version 8.5.7.201706 should allow user to type the date and move to next field using Tab key. The calendar shouldn't auto-populated on focus of the date time c...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

Show task count for Saved Searches

Users wish to see the number of tasks within each saved search so that they do not have to open the saved search to see how many tasks are there.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow Case Solutions to be upgraded using the BAW Admin Client

During an upgrade we are supposed to Upgrade the Workflow Servers first and then later upgrade the Workflow Center. Using this process it will break the deployment pipeline for Tradional Case Solutions. New development work won't be able to be dep...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Create onbeforeunload event listener in Coach for identifying User navigating out of coach

IBM BPM Does not provide way to identify the event of user navigating out of form when user has changed the data on form. The client wants to prevent user from navigating out of form and prevent from viewing any Dashboards or launch process when h...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Export Case Search results to Excel or PDF (IBM Case Manager)

The one thing that’s lacking in Case Manager is a native built-in Export option. Businesses often wish to have a quick way to export their Case Search results into Excel. Currently, they contact the technical team who then run scripts manually t...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration