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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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Merge Business Object when Task is completed using REST API

Currently when an external implementation in the Process is completed the whole BO has to be sent otherwise some of the fields in the BO gets null. Thus we have to do GET Data and then complete with the changes in the BO. We should have a way to m...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide reports in operational data

Our customers use BPMoC to drive core decision processes in the business. They have a requirement to regulaly report on operational health and reliability of the IT systems used to run their business. BPMoC should therefore provide reports on at l...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Fetch user information example first name, last name and email address based on the provided user attribute.

We have a requirement to fetch the user details for example user first name, last name and email address based on the provided user attribute For every user we have set a custom user attribute as WMID (Walmart ID) so using that we want to fetch co...
over 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Heading text such as "Non Card Fraud Case" is not coded with heading semantics

Code using heading level 1 PMR: TS012511053 I can see the scenario in BAW V19, then I check the behavior in BAW V22.0.1. It is same. Heading text is not coded with heading semantics. Please login below site and raise the enhancement request. Techn...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The CASE addition allows multiple people to develop functions at the same time.

It is hoped that the same CASE can be added to allow different people to develop different "case types" and improve the efficiency of CASE development.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add "Case Type" copy function in CASE

When developing CASE in BAW, it is hoped that the existing "case type" can be copied, so that developers can modify and use the copied "case type".
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Lock the process and case being edited

When multiple users of a process or case have editing permission, and one user is editing, it should be displayed as "locked" on the process or case to prompt other users that the process or case is being edited by someone. When the same user edit...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Automatic separation of BAW business data

At present, we know that in BAW process design, business data and process need to be separated. That is, if the business data is saved in BAW, it will be cleared. Therefore, it is necessary to write the business data to the business database throu...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add functionality to cleanup installation packages from Process Center's database

The LSW_DEPLOYMENT_PACKAGE table grows over the time into tens or hundreds of gigabytes, because each generated deployment package is stored in that table for ever, for no reason. Once the snapshot is installed to process server, there is no reaso...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Close document viewer if it is being opened in a different window

Business Users are viewing documents from a case and updating properties on a case details page based on document content. When a case is closed and a new case is opened, documents from previous case are still opened in another popup. There are hi...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration