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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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Change the way to compact the PFS_BPD_CHANGE_LOG table

Our DBAs detect that the PFS does a compaction procedure every hour in BPM database executing this Query: DELETE FROM BPMPSRP1.PFS_BPD_CHANGE_LOG OLDER WHERE OLDER.CONSUMER_001 = 20 AND EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM BPMPSRP1.PFS_BPD_CHANGE_LOG YOUNGER WH...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Keep format when copying content from MS Word to BAW rich text editor

Our users use to copy/paste the content from MS Word to BAW rich text editor. Unfortunately, in some case the format get lost and they need to manually change it back to how it was. E.g.,if thay copy/paste a table froma a Word document, the table ...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add Service APIs to BAW Swagger UI page

At present on the BAW Swagger UI page, we are able to see links for System, Process and User Task. It will be beneficial to developers if a link for Service APIs is also added.
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Attached event with policy file instance migration not moving token to completed after attached activity task completed

Instance migration with policy file not moving tokens Multiple changes in a BPD in our main track and we needed to merge the UCA into a release track but didn’t want the other changes. So the UCA was created manually in the release track with the ...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enable Localization in Instance Names and Task Names

Enable Localization in Instance Names and Task Names. We have a requirement where french task names should be displayed to french users and English task names to be displayed to English users. However IBM BPM does not allow localization for instan...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow Data Export Control in IBM BPM 8.6 to have custom sorting preferences while exporting.

The Data Export coach view in IBM BPM does not allow custom sorting preference while exporting. When we discussed the issue with SWAT Team, they confirmed that this functionality is not available at the moment and they suggested us to raise an RFE...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Select All Control in Spark UI Table should be configurable for Selecting records either only on Page or All records

Select All Control in Spark UI Table should be configurable for Selecting records either only on Page or All records.
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support additional environment types for Environmental variables

In Process Designer, Environment Variables tab currently supports setting Default values, plus values for 4 environment types (Development, Test, Stage, Production). We have an Application team that wants to use 5 different environments (each has ...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Configuration self service for application configurations

IID supports adding promotable properties to applications, these can be configured from was console. One can also create resource environment properties that can be configured from was console. The admin interface currently supports only configuri...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Scroll bar availability for single select and text control

Need scroll bar availability for single select and text control as we are unable to see the whole text when displayed as read only field and width as 33%. IBM support team has provided 2 solutions but end users are not satisfied with the solution ...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration