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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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Case data can be reused

We need to reuse Case data, which means that data between different Case instances can be called with each other, of course, after authorization is required. Simply put, each Case can set its own data (attribute data) that can be read and updated ...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Workplace requires an adaptive mobile browser or the development of a Workplace mobile app

Many of the customers who use the system are on business trips, especially the leaders. When traveling on business, now basically do not bring a laptop or tablet, but bring your own mobile phone, which is convenient for movement. However, the work...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM Integration designer solution to cloud without modifying source/application code

As world is moving towards IT cloud , our customer also have plan to migrate to IBM Integration designer solution to cloud containers. I am wondering if IBM can provide a tool or something to migrate IBM Integration designer solution to cloud cont...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Please change default view of "Validation errors and warnings" section from"Current project view" to "Current artifact view"

The default view of "Validation errors and warnings" section is currently "Current project view". What I propose is to change default to "Current artifact view". Reason for doing that: Some projects, unfortunately, have a lot of validation warnin...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Decision table has columns that I want to exclude from being considered as conditions (to be for viewed only and not to be included in the code).

Decision table has columns that I want to exclude from being considered as conditions (to be for viewed only and not to be included in the code). Is there any kind of "ignore" option/setting so that during rules execution time it wont consider as ...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Email task notifications for caseless tasks should point to WorkDashboard or WorkPlace and not ProcessPortal

Automatic email notifications for BAW applications, which include case functionality, contain a link redirecting Case Client or WorkDashboard depending on whether the task is part of an activity or not. However, for caseless BAW applications, emai...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 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...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 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.
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 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...
almost 2 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...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration