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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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URL for artifacts in BAW application

It would be nice to have a link to an artifact in BAW application. This would enable developers to bookmark artifacts, share URL(s) with colleagues and so on.
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Oracle DB Support AL16UTF16 character set for BPM NCHAR character set

support NCHAR character set AL16UTF16 on Oracle Databases. per Oracle doc https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/NLSPG/ch6unicode.htm#NLSPG317 AL16UTF16 This is the default character set and recommended for SQL NCHAR data types. This character set e...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

CHANGE REQUEST - Interface WorkBasketDefinition

Our team uses the interface WorkBasketDefinition to users management in the workbaskets. However, we have a time out problem when the workbasket has a big list of users. The effort is large but we hope to do this in a future release as explained h...
about 11 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 7 Not under consideration

Allow copy and paste of default values in PD

When you have a complex variable and select to fill in default values, you cannot copy those values for unknown reasons. Copy and paste by keyboard shortcut or selection in menu is not possible.
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future 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 ...
almost 3 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...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

add more details for caller task like task ID or caller process instance id when calling Ajax service

add more details for caller task like task ID or caller process instance id when calling Ajax service i have already raised it to IBM on case TS007915309, i was informed that this feature is not available if you are calling a service flow using Aj...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Show Data Volume one table for each activity in Process Dashboard

we want to have an overview data volume for activity in Process Performance Dashboard
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

Enhance the Product feature - Roster dashboard in team performance

I am Adrien, leading IQA implementation all over our HSBC Wholesales teams, so far having already deployed more than 20 IQA instances. I would like to raise a a product requirement that I believe would greatly benefit your customers, starting with...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Add task (latest) case and task comments as a selectable system properties for in-basket and case summary

Often users work from in-baskets in the Work tab of Navigator, instead of utilizing the Case tab. (Sad, but true.) Consequently they wish to understand the overall state and have requested a custom comment or status field, which we then have creat...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration