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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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See exposed items from nested toolkits on process app settings page

The process app settings page shows exposed items form the process app and its toolkits, but does not include those from nested toolkits (only directly dependent toolkits are taken into account). When having a large number of nested toolkits, this...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support for XSLT v2.0 in xmltransform function

The xmltransform function is a hidden gem in the BAW product, allowing workflow developers to "externalize" business logic and complex computations and string parsing.There are a lot of cool features in XSLT v2.0 that would make this powerful func...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

sorting option not shown in Single Select in UI Toolkit

In Single Select under Responsive Coach the "Disable sorting" option is shown. The items that appears in single select is alphabetically ordered. But in Single Select under UI Toollkit the "Disable sorting" option is not shown. The items that appe...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Automate Client Side & Heritage Human service using REST/Java/TW Javascript API

Automate Client Side & Heritage Human service using REST/Java/TW Javascript API
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Improve Search/Sort functionality in Web Designer

The search functionality in Web Designer doesn't seem to work very well. Every time my team want to get to a specific project we have to sort and then page through until we find the project. Every time to go back out to the main screen, the sortin...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

We really need Custom Assignment Back for All Tasks

We have a use case where a user who does one task needs to also be the user that does a future task. It isn't a good use case for last user in lane because we use subprocesses and last user in lane doesn't work. We used to be able to assign direct...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Refresh BPMDocumentList Automatically

In our application we have a startable client side human service in which there is a list of every instance of our application. Every instance in that list is unique and contains its own information, including some attached documents too. To acces...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Document Explorer control with Linked Drop Downs

We have an Integration with the IBM BPM System Version 8.5.7 and the IBM File Net System version 5.2.0.2 for managing the documents. All Folders created / documents uploaded into the BPM Application Screens get created/uploaded into File Net appli...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

IBM BPM Folder Creation using Document Explorer Control

We are having and Integration with IBM BPM 8.5.7 and IBM File Net5.2.0.2. All Folders created Or documents uploaded in BPM are eventually Created/stored in Filenet. In the BPM Screen we are using the Document Explorer control. Our Requirement is w...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

Have Process Portal display business data for all elements on teh work list

The Heritage Portal allowed the user to press the down arrow button next to the search entry field to display the business data associated with the instances on the list for ALL the instances that display. The Process Portal does not have the func...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists