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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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Add option to views in UI Toolkit that have "Items from Service" to not run on page load

The BPM UI Views such as Single Select, Multi Select, Checkbox Group, Radio Group always call the List Item Service when configured with Items from Service on page load. These views also offer methods such as setServiceInputData and reloadServiceI...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Getting BPM application or toolkit snapshot validation errors and warnings from scripting command

Currently it is possible to view Process Application or Toolkit validation errors from classic Workflow Center Console, as shown in the product Knowledge Center: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS8JB4_20.x/com.ibm.wbpm.admin.doc/topics...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM BPM Product Security Hardening Configuration

Security hardening configuration property added to the IBM BPM product to prevent Process Portal from using PUT or DELETE calls, and request to instead use POST calls with the x-override-method header.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Autofocus on first editable field in Spark UI

Support case id: TS003978989 With the íntroduction of Spark UI in BAW you haveto specify in which order fields require focusmanually. This is a source of error when you reorganize fieldsor introduce new fields on a coach duringmaintenance. Previou...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Enable Partitioning for BPM / BAW table CONTENTS

Problem raised with IBM as Case number TS003756070 We are using Db2 as the database to back BPM and BAW. The largest table CONTENTS has grown to 2Tb and will continue to grow because we do not have an archiving strategy in place for the contents t...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Support setting default document type in Document Explorer

The issue is about lack of default document type when uploading files through new document explorer which were available in responsive document explorer. The details of the issue are put in PDF attached to this case. Our BPM version is 8.6 2018.03...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Client-side Human Service Error Notifications

In development using client-side human services, there are several pieces of functionality that exist in development inside the BPM application that do not exist when using client-side human services that could potentially save time during develop...
about 9 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Improve error output after failure of profile creation

When running "BPMConfig.sh -create -de {properties file}" we encountered a crash resulting in (first attempt) a Java core dump then (second attempt) a thrown exception followed by a pile of stack trace output. It transpired that the Dmgr profile h...
about 9 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

PFS support for SOLR index

Process Federation Server supports Elastic Search as an indexing engine. But we have strategic support in our enterprise for SOLR as an indexing service. As we implement an indexing service for our PFS solution, it would be helpful for us to rely ...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

VALIDATION ERROR ICONS ARE MISSING ON TAB HEADERS IN BAW CLIENT SIDE HUMAN SERVICES

IBM BAW - Tab Validations are missing on tab headersCase - TS003586891
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration