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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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Deleting tracks from Process Center

I am not able to delete track from an process application, I can only archive it. There are multiple tracks in an process app which are not used since long, need to clear those to improve performance. I have raised a PMR mentioned above, it seems ...
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Delivered

SSO support for OIDC in Edit Services for Cloud Pak for Business Automation

Actually Edit services does not support SAML SSO authentication, requiring users already authenticated in Navigator to repeat the authentication when editing documents and when authentication and authorization are separated, this may introduce fur...
about 3 years ago in Content Navigator Delivered

Regression of all assigned work in basket in BPM/task side

On the P8 side this functionality works very well where if the task is assigned to the role other users of the same role can view the tasks assigned for different users on the same role. But on BPM this functionality should be introduced too, as o...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Delivered

When using the get next function, if the user picks the last item in the inbasket they get a message "no more work items" when the dispatch the work item

The behavior where if the last work item is picked, and it reports 'no more items' is the behavior that was inherited from the prior release and is how the in-basket current processes work. If the customer would like it to behave differently, then...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Delivered

Allow to deploy a fix of a case with business automation workflows

Use the branches to create a fix deployable to production environment isn't possible when the BA workflow includes the case features. Make possible this feature again, even if the case feature part as to be manually managed. It's penalizing for in...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Delivered

IBM RPA ability to cancel bot in status Waiting

Currently, there are some situations in which the cancellation of a expected bot run can be useful. A cancel button and reset for the waiting schedules can improve the user experience and provide the user with even more control of the schedules.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Delivered

Provide access to Cloud Pak License Service Reporter Dashboards for non-administrative users

The License Reporter component of CP foundational services provide a very good overview about current and historical license consumption across deployed instances and clusters. Currently only Cloud Pak users which have the "Cluster Admin" or "Clou...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Delivered

Dynamic Filter for all the inbaskets on page load

We have implemented Dynamic Filter for all the inbaskets, on initial load only first inbasket is filtering and other for inbaskets after clicking on them they are filtering but not on initila load. Have a way to filter all the inbaksets for a spec...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Delivered

Stop Runtime execution using the Control Center

For now, if you need to stop a scheduled runtime execution that is already running, you need to access the computer and close the WDG.Automation.Agent process. With this new feature, you will not need to access the computer with the runtime, you ...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Delivered

Add the option 'Right Click' to command Click on Web Page

It would be useful to add this enhancment to the command to avoid unnecessary workrounds ( get coordinates of element via window indentifications, attaching window and use mouse command ). This workround also proved more times ineffective or was n...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation Delivered