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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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Conflicting exposed businessdata-types should result in warnings in Process Designer

When making variables in a process visible in Process Portal (exposing them) Web Process Designer should show a warning that the variable will result in a conflict on the server, and as such should be avoided if possible. A simple check against th...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add reference when REST service is invoked in a scripted way

When REST service is called using script as described in Docs for some cases, reference in "where used" is lost which makes it hard to perform dependency analysis.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support all OOTB business objects in external REST service

Data types like ECMID from BAW toolkit are not supported for external exposed REST services. This is a limitation which forces to do business object remapping to cloned structure without these OOTB data types. It would be beneficial to also allow ...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

JS API - Updating instance variables is missing from JS API.

Updating instance variables is missing from JS API. TWInstance.businessData.put("xyz", "123") has no effect.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

JS API - Claim Task is missing from JS API

Claim Task is missing from JS API. Only reassignTo() is available, which always succeeds, even though the task may be claimed by someone else. Add Task.claim(TWUser).
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Testability - make environmental variables instance scoped

Make environment variables instance-scoped instead of application-scoped, to allow for easier mocking/stubbing of external services.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

WebPD support for refactor/rename

Refactor/rename was supported in Desktop Designer. When will it be added for WebPD?
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

WebPD Directly link to individual assets (services, process definitions, human services etc) via URL

Simplify collaboration by being able to send link to what you are working on. Increased productivity
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

WebPD javascript files editable through browser

Make added javascript files to a process application editable through the browser, currently you have to download and reupload the file. Would also be great if other filetypes could be previewed.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Documentation sources are very inadequate

Documentation sources are very inadequate. Most of the links to resources found through search engines are broken. This puts us in a really difficult situation. This is a big waste of time and motivation.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0