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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).


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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:

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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API to Check if a user has task to action on

We have a requirement to check if a user has any Tasks for which he can action on, We have multiple BPEL processes with multiple tasks for each process. Each Task can be either a “Human Task” or a “Participating Task”. Each task has list of custom...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

ProcessPortal default value for "items per page"

Please add an option for ProcessPortal users to save a default value for "items per page".Case TS001092549
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Flexible Cleanup of BPM DurableMessages

IBM BAW provides a command for removing BPM Durable messages.BPMDeleteDurableMessages command:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS8JB4/com.ibm.wbpm.ref.doc/topics/rref_bpmdeletedurablemessages.html BPMN Processes can often have an extend...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide a rest API to combine the function of "Finish Task" and "Current State" APIs

Provide a rest API to combine the function of "Complete Task" and "Current State" APIs Provide a rest API to combine the function of "Finish Task" and "Current State" APIs When the Finish Task API returns status code 200, please make sure that the...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Document Explorer Configuration

TS000810394 I add a document via the Content Integration Task with the following options:- Server: IBM BPM document store- Option name: Create documentIn this case the parameter 'Folder ID' is grayed out and the default value '/' is visible.But th...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Process Inspector , support for "fire now" on timers from nested processes

Remove product limitation - that only event and timer for top-level processes are shown in Process Inspector, not for nested processes. "Fire now" should be possible on timers from nested processes.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

timezone independent DateTimePicker control

It would be good to have an additional option in the DataTimePicker control (BPM UI 8.6) to able to set timezone independent dates and times.
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Process Monitor Data for Exporting

Export Process Monitor data into csv or xls for reporting.
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

A "Refresh" button needs to be added to the case details page.

The user updated the data in the case object after the "activity" process approval, but did not automatically refresh the detailed data. You need to close the case type and reopen it to see the latest data. This process is troublesome. You need to...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BAW generated DDL is not z/OS DB compliant

Issue #3 DDL format is not for DB2 z/OS: Source DDL generated doesn't conform as required by standard DSNTEP2 (a program on mainframe- provided by IBM with DB2) . If we had a custom DSNTEP2 that supported longer line length that would alleviate th...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration