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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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Allow Button View to be disabled after click

Currently there is a bug/limitation that will immediately reenable a button after .setEnabled(false) is called from the button click event. We would use this functionally to disable a button so it cannot be clicked more than once (until an operati...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Display current webservice endpoint information

In the ProcessAdmin, If user doesn't input the "override endpoint" field, he won't know what current endpoint is. It doesn't make sense that user needs to go back the authoring environment to check what current value is for runtime. The product sh...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

XSRF-TOKEN cookie should be HTTP Only

The XSRF-TOKEN cookie does not have the "HttpOnly" attribute set. Using this attribute helps to prevent client-side Javascript from accessing the cookie, thereby mitigating one of the most common XSS exploit scenarios. Unless the application re...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Multiple business logs in BAWoC

ONS now have several BAW projects running in parallel in BAWoC. However, the only log file that can be used for debugging purposes is the underlying WAS stdout log, exposed via the System Operations Live Log Viewer in the BAWoC / DBA console.. Thi...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Check for an umlaut in definition fields for tracking groups

When you are adding an umlaut in definition fields for tracking groups the process designer will accept it. But when you are updating the tracking definitions, it will cause an SQL error because of illegal characters. So please implement a field v...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Work Page Inbasket Filter window(popup) to allow "Enter" Key to OK(submit) instead of having to scroll down to the bottom of the window to hit and to run the filter.

We are getting a lot of user request to have Case Manager Inbasket Filter window allow Enter Key to OK instead of having to scroll down to the bottom of the window to hit and to run the filter. As there are longer and longer list of filter paramet...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

automatically return to the computer when a user closes the browser

A Client Side Human Service is assigned to a team and a user open this task. But the user decides not to take any action and close the browser, this task is assigned to the user for life. I would like that after a certain time (for example 30 minu...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to discard library item changes

Goal The idea is to have a clear and correct history of the library item changes. Current functionality Imagine that the developer makes an unwanted change to the library item. The developer then chooses the undo option and undoes those changes. H...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Open multi artifacts in web PD

Open multiple artifact in the same time
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

BAW (BPM) Process Portal Menu Items show/hide configuration

The enterprise customers require to release a simplified interface to their end users using the BPM Process Portal, removing the unnecessary menu items such as the Process Dashboard, Team Dashboard etc..Actually this is only possible by taking the...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration