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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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Coach Views Help Text Enhancements in BAW 19.0.0.3

In BAW 19.0.0.3 there is a new feature for displaying Help Text for coach views using a question mark icon before the control. In previous versions Help text was displayed on hover of the coach views, but this is not working for some time now and ...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Handle Long Datatypes with external Webservice Integrations

Hi Naveen, So the reason why there is no LONG type is that IBM BPM uses Javascript at various locations. JavaScript represents all the numbers as IEEE 754 double precision floating point numbers.See Variable types in Process Designer. It is not po...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

BPM表單歷史記錄提供查詢功能

流程不管是否正常結束,都應可供查詢
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Not Contains filter option for saved searches

Our internal business customer would like to filter saved searches by NOT contains rather than just Contains. I think they want to search tasks by various critera and then say that the task does not contain the word Build.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide default permission management functions for each started case instance

The permission logic used by case should come from acce. After authorizing the role permission in case, all users under the role can access each case instance by default, which will lead to data insecurity. In real work, the cases added by users d...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The default view in BPM continues to be valid

How to create a view in BPM? The default view will fail, that is, the user must use the created view. Even if the user innovates the view, the previous default view is used by default, and the contents in the new view cannot be edited. We believe ...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Fix Process Designer to filter out control characters which cause issues in Process Center

If a developer somehow enters a hidden control character, Process Designer accepts it and stores it in the underlying XML for the process model. However, if such a control character is present, Process Center cannot promote the Process Application...
almost 9 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Specific log files for different apps

When using IBM BPM on cloud, we need some capability as developer to define different log files for different process application).
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Change request to Process Performance Gantt chart

Product: Business Automation Workflow V18.0.0.1 Gantt chart in BAW Process Performance Dashboard displays duration times of a process. (see attahced gantt.pg)And the duration time is "END_TIME-CREATION_TIME". From TASKS view, BAW also saves START_...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 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 (...
over 11 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration