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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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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...
over 9 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under 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 2 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 (...
over 11 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under 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_...
almost 5 years 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 2 years 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.
over 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...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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.
about 5 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...
over 2 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...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration