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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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Remove 1000 searchable variables limit when using using the saved search acceleration tools

Refer https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=portal-tuning-process-searches The session "Optimize saved searches with business data variables", it mentioned "When using a pivot table, you must ensure that you do not use more than 1000 searchab...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Script Adapter can save as file and import/reuse able.

Issue:Script Adapters cannot be reused, as a result, we need to copy and paste every time Idea: Script Adapter can save as file and import/reuse able.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The change of Script Adapter can submit to the target object and be effected on the page after click a button

The change of Script Adapter can submit to the target object and be effected on the page after click a button User case: User change the java script in the script Adapter, then save solution User click the transform the java script
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support for "Simple HTML" column in "Table" CV when exporting through "Data Export"

When developing UI, sometimes there is a need to export table data into an excel file. There is a "Data Export" View which can be configured to use the View "Table" in order to export data from table into an excel file. However, currently, that fu...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support to provide USER and GROUP to Workflow Process Service image

Current behavior of WfPS images when using docker-compose, we can either pass the USER or the GROUP, but customers can't pass both.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Intermediate Timer Events to use the attributes set in the BPD where the timer exists and not the parent BPD attributes

In our shop, we have several BPDs that are invoked as "Linked Process" from parent processes. Both parent and child BPDs have "Intermediate Timer Events" and these timers are designed to follow the respective attributes set under "Work Schedule" s...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Status updates in "Migrate Inflight Data From Snapshot"

When migration inflight data from other snapshots, the screen is blank when retrieving processes from different snapshots (like in uploaded image). The screen is also blank if no processes have been found (like in uploaded image). What I propose i...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

"Migrate Inflight Data From Snapshot" loader

Hello, When migrating inflight data, we have no way of knowing is the BPM Admin Portal retrieving the data or not. The "Migrate Inflight Data From Snapshot" screen will be blank until processes from different snapshots are retrieved (like in ima...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Implement SSO Feature for CMIS using SAML

CMIS is being used rapidly to communicate with FileNet repository by multiple client application for content operations. SSO feature will provide seamless user interaction with FileNet and proper security will be applied based on login user.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Branch info in Process Inspector

It would be nice to have a branch info in process information panel in process inspector once user clicks on a process. If there are more branches active at the same time, processes can be started for multiple branches. When search returns results...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration