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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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Process Diagramm on iPad

I want to use the process diagramm website on iPad.But this is not supported but our customers needs this.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under 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...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Oauth Tokens Change Every Hour: BPM Needs to Update a Variable Hourly for Use by All BPMN Instances

How can we store an OAuth token in the BPM equivalent of a global variable? We use this token in order to connect to our micro service layer, and we are exhausting our Rest endpoint that generates the token because every instance is generating a t...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Add the option for single instance of business objects as well as lists of business objects.

At the moment when creating a business object in a Case Solution it can only be added as a list of the business object. Since Case talks to BPM(process designer) and that does utilise single instances of business objects to prevent repetition, sho...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Case Properties in Coach UI

Once, IBM Case Manager solution is migrated to IBM BAW, case properties should be supported in Coach UI. As of now, if we drag any case property it throws warning message 'Content Object is filtered and can not be referenced.'
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

Enable Localization in Instance Names and Task Names

Enable Localization in Instance Names and Task Names. We have a requirement where french task names should be displayed to french users and English task names to be displayed to English users. However IBM BPM does not allow localization for instan...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Customize the WSDL definition for inbound web services.

The feature would allow developers to transfer business objects limitations to the WSDL definition. Also, it would allow developers to indicate whether a field is optional or required.
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

We are looking auto selection feature if there is only one value in the selection list of single select control of bpmui tool

We are looking auto selection feature if there is only one value in the selection list of single select control of bpmui toolkit.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Font support in Views

This request is to make the development easier when developer needs to use a custom font. Currently, there is an ability to add CSS and JS files in View artifacts (library items). It would be nice to have the ability to add custom fonts. Currently...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow Data Export Control in IBM BPM 8.6 to have custom sorting preferences while exporting.

The Data Export coach view in IBM BPM does not allow custom sorting preference while exporting. When we discussed the issue with SWAT Team, they confirmed that this functionality is not available at the moment and they suggested us to raise an RFE...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration