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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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Order / visualize views by tag within a category

This RFE is related to the support ticket TS002635333. Since the new categorization of views in the Process designer (see https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS8JB4/com.ibm.wbpm.wle.editor.doc/topics/ccreatingviews_categories.html) view...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future 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 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

We need support of complex type WSDL in WebPD

The XSD type schema included in the WSDL uses the construct of derived complex objects in many places. It builds a complex type hierarchy where both the base types and the derived types are used in parallel.As per ticket TS002481263BPM Standard ha...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

[BAW ADV] SonarLint integration with IID

We are trying to install sonarlint plugin with IID IBM Integration designer, version 8.5.7, installation fails and IBM support team suggested to raise RFE. Attached document has the steps follow and errors resulted when installing the plugin. Plea...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

BAW task Subject is coming in Chinese language instead of "Step: Data Entry" and causes issue as used in getting the TASKID

In BAW the task Subject is coming in Chinese language instead of "Step: Data Entry" value and this causes issue as it is used in getting the TASKID. Please check if this can be resolved at IBM BPM product level as this will impact applications tha...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Is a defect

Request for enhancement on BPM Saved Search to support users not in participant process

Our business is looking for a solution to search against all accessible process instances / tasks, not just process instances with task assigned to their team or tasks available, completed by themselves.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

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 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BPMoC Process Monitor does not allow user to select a certain node

When viewing the Process Monitor through the Process Admin console, the server is automatically selected for the user. However, there can be multiple servers that need to be viewed. The user has no way of selecting which server they want to view, ...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Mapping list variable on error data

TS002444983 Currently it is possible to map variable which is a list to "Error End Event" in "Service Flow". It is also possible to caught the error and to extract object from error object. However, when binding the list, a validation error: "The ...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

bpmext.ui for complex objects

TS002434977 Let's say that we have nameValuePair variable as a CV's configuration option. Let's say that that context option is not bounded. If we use:var nameValuePairJsObject = { name: "Name 1", value: "Value 1" };bpmext.ui.substituteConfigOptio...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration