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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

Business Automation Workflow

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    Allow the approver in the flow to take action on bulk of items

    The customer is using BAW for multiple tasks. About 300 articles are created every day and may existing articles are edited. The flow has many approvers and one of them being the taxation team. Articles created by every department will have a taxa...
    4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Bulk creation / edit of article - Each article triggers a flow

    Similar to transaction systesms (like bank), where they allow us to download a template, fill the template with details for multiple transactions and upload in one go. This ends up triggering multiple transactions. The customer is using BAW for pr...
    4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Allow flow approvals over email

    The customer is using BAW for multiple tasks in their environment. The actors (approver) in the flow gets email notification when a task is waiting for their action. The actor then has to use the process portal to act on the TODO list. The custome...
    4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Add the ability for the Link Control to rename the file downloaded if it's used to open a file in a new tab

    Dears, in the <a></a> html it can be used to open or download files if it's content as base64 is based to the <a> html tag and having the attribute "download" which is used to rename the downloaded file to whatever we need its na...
    5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    BAW does not support open api version 3.1.0

    After manually changing(by editing the version in the open api local file) the open api version to 3.0.1 ,we were able to create the external service and discover the rest service and the operations. However Upon running the integration service to...
    5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Enable Document Processing toolkit functionality within BAW workflows to support document field highlight interaction.

    Currently in CP4BA, the Document Processing toolkit is only supported within Business Applications and is not intended for direct use inside Business Automation i.e (BAW aka workflow capability). However, there is a growing need to integrate advan...
    5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

    Enable reverse propagation of choice list updates from Content Engine (ACCE) to Case Builder.

    Choice list updates made directly in ACCE (Content Engine) should be reflected in Case Builder without being overwritten during solution redeploy. Currently, if a user updates a choice list directly in ACCE (for example, via a plugin or manually),...
    5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Need to manage tasks with dynamic team

    If a task is created and gets assigned to the team, if the team gets altered (i.e. a new member is added to the team after the task is assigned to the team), the new member should also see the task in his / her list of tasks.
    5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Functionality already exists

    Time-Based SLA Escalation Paths

    Allow visual configuration of SLA escalation logic (e.g., email reminder after X minutes, reassign after Y hours) to Reduces reliance on external scripts or custom logic for escalations.
    5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Modern Low-Code UI Designer for Coaches

    Introduce a React- or Angular-based coach designer with drag-and-drop components, real-time previews, and built-in responsive design.
    5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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