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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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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...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Extend ICM Operations to set Creator based on parameter

Provide the ability to set the Creator when using ICM_Operations such as createDiscretionaryTaskWithProps and addCommentToCurrentTask. Currently, the Creator is always the system user configured for the JAAS User Name on the Component Queue. Attem...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BAW container standalone need support naming database user with hyphen

The hyphen character is supported by postgresql to be used as user name, while when HSBC try use a service account which include hyphen character, BAW will treat it as database schema name also. Since the hyphen is the invalid character for databa...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0

Allow for null fields in sortable columns for work lists rather than showing an error.

Needed by the business to re-sort each column. Not all fields have a value.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Please remove swim lane from service flow

For some reason there is a swim lane in service flow. There is no way to add another swim lane or to remove existing one. However, that unnecessary swim lane causes the limitation on activity placement. Sometimes I need to expand swim lane in orde...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Add JS initialization for selection list business Object

Let's say that there is a selection simple type business object named SelectionSimpleTypeObject and that there are some values and display text pairs entered:1 One2 Two Let's say that there is a Service Flow, Client Side Human Service, Heritage Hu...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Permit workstreams install in production patterns with workflow authoring

Production pattern is used for PoC and Demo environments when Cp4BA also needs to connect to customers LDAP and DBs. Absence of workstreams when Workflow Authoring is chosen is forcing to install another resource intensive instance just have works...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Enable communication from BAW in containers to SOAP services

There are some clients who are starting to implement BAW and other automation capabilities in containers, however, some of those clientes have an old integration layer where they have some apps and services build in SOAP 2.0 or other versions; the...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration