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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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Provide ability to change scheduled time of events in BAW

BPM/BAW should have the ability to update scheduled time of events to a later date/time through the Process Admin console or any other method in case a problem occurs with certain event execution.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

TW Search API truncates text (string data type) that has more than 512 characters long.

As requested by IBM engineering team in case# TS002626219 for problem statement as follows - TW Search API result is truncating the TW search result output to 512 characters. The data type of that variable is String; please note that all those obj...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Need improvement in assignment's behavior of "last user in lane" when activity pass through sub or linked process.

Please, bring back the task to last user in lane when using subprocess or linked process A PMR regarding this issue has been submitted by Orange. This PMR as of today is closed, with the indication that the requirement should be submitted as RFE (...
about 11 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

508 Issue - Page Widgets do not contain semantic headings

Originally opened as PMR TS002789830 Most likely affects all Page Widgets, although 508 testing specifically focused on Case List page widget which is used for Search results. The Issue: Tabbing into pages (page widgets), heading is not read out t...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Moving ENVs and servers along with library artifacts

TS002787495 When moving a library artifact, if that artifact or its dependency have reference to environment variable or server, this settings are not moved because they are not library items. The result is broken binding after the move. The devel...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Paging in import wizards for ENVs and Servers

Case TS002781598. If the environment has a lot of applications and toolkits, the timeout can occur in first page of import wizard when importing servers or environmental variables in application or toolkit settings in Web Process Designer. Current...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

SQL query in clear text

Pertaining to the current application, it was found that critical confidential data like username and password of DB, IP address and port of the DB are being transferred in clear text in the form JSON data. A malicious user can easily capture the ...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Captcha Missing

Captcha functionality is used defend against various kind automation attacks and brute force attacks in critical functionality like login page, forgot password, change password sections.Attacker can brute force the critical functionality such as l...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Instant messaging interface service

I hope to provide an instant messaging interface service. For example, in the BPM process, people need to be reminded to deal with work tasks. Now they are reminded by email, and there are no interface services for pushing to slack and wechat. If ...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support Environment Variable in BAW Case

For BAW case manager, there is no way to have environment variables for the same package to be deployed to production and non-production environment. It makes the package impossible to deploy to production after user acceptance testing unless we f...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration