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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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almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

BAW (BPM) Process Portal Menu Items show/hide configuration

The enterprise customers require to release a simplified interface to their end users using the BPM Process Portal, removing the unnecessary menu items such as the Process Dashboard, Team Dashboard etc..Actually this is only possible by taking the...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Wellsfargo policy control procedure Specification of component-managed aliases on JAVA EE resources is prohibited

As part of Wellsfargo security policy usage of component managed authentication aliases prohibited. Currently IBM BPM not supported this change and requires enhancing the product. Created PMR - TS001475871 and IBM expressed no solution for now. CP...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Permit workstreams install in production patterns with workflow authoring

Production pattern is used for PoC and Demo environments when Cp4BA also needs to connect to customers LDAP and DBs. Absence of workstreams when Workflow Authoring is chosen is forcing to install another resource intensive instance just have works...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Enable communication from BAW in containers to SOAP services

There are some clients who are starting to implement BAW and other automation capabilities in containers, however, some of those clientes have an old integration layer where they have some apps and services build in SOAP 2.0 or other versions; the...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Filtering in BPM

Main function: The component should be configurable to include the excel-equivalent filtering on the columns of the table. The filter should be configurable in the database. In the current project we have a working filter model that should be incl...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Paging or data in CSHS Table UI View

Ability to configure for Client and Server-Side paging where the server-side paging calls a configurable service. In our current project implementation, the team has implemented a component called Paging Section that nests the existing Table in th...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

The new Standard REST API should have the same functions as the heritage REST API

The new standard REST API only has a few methods available, compared to many in the heritage REST API - this is a drawback when deciding which variant to use - the heritage model clearly is the preferred one for complex integrations, but it is lac...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under 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 User Access Tracking

Need way to track the users logging into applications. Specifically, need a way to track people who are logged into Process Portal. Also need to track the Business Applications used in Process Portal.
about 9 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration