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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,

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  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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Paging or data in CSHS Table UI View

Ability to configure for Client and Server-Side paging where the server-side paging calls a configurable service. In our current project implementation, the team has implemented a component called Paging Section that nests the existing Table in th...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Tune and optimize resources with standalone runtime PODs with BAW which are not used exclusively for business purpose rather internal functional usage of various services

Summary: We understand following core components i.e. runtime pods required for standalone BAW installation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=cibaw-containers-in-v2103-installing-configuring-migrating-business-automation-workflow The sta...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Upgrade server side Rhino engine to use ES6 functionality

According to ticket Case number TS010336517 it will be very helpful to have more updated functionality (like arrow functions) in JavaScript language on server side.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The created Case type can be deleted

After adding a case, it cannot be deleted, which is very inconvenient. Please add the delete function to allow the administrator to delete the added case. Although the link below provides a method, it is too complicated, please provide a one-clic...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The new Standard REST API should have the same functions as the heritage REST API

The new standard REST API only has a few methods available, compared to many in the heritage REST API - this is a drawback when deciding which variant to use - the heritage model clearly is the preferred one for complex integrations, but it is lac...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Automatic Pivot Table Regeneration: Currently if a new variable is exposed(check visible in process portal) we are manually regenerating pivot tables

We would like this to be automatically regenerated as part of the deployment.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Limited Where Used Scope: Currently “Where Used” feature shows the artifact referenced within the application/toolkit.

Developer should be able to find in what applications a service developed in a toolkit is used.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Search in authoring environment: Currently we are unable to search(with) any variable names, comments, that are used in artifacts.

If there is any external service component is referenced in a script, at a later point developer should be able to find the artifacts where that external service is referenced.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

IBM Case Manager EDS sent all properties for each update request causing unnecessary updates

Originally opened as Ticket# TS004001245 The Solution has many properties enabled for EDS on the Case. When 1 property is updated in a case, all properties are sending over to EDS. Since There is no attribute to tell which property is modified, th...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration