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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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Reduce multiple instances (manual tasks created using ICM) to single process

1. We have a case type in which we have different activities about 10.2. These 10 activities are created manually and are using external BPM processes.3. These activities use same Process App and same business process4. In the Business process we ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Default the home page of BPMoC's new portal design to the production tab

In our BPMoC environment, we have been upgraded to a new portal that now has 3 different tabs depending on which environments you have access to (Development, Test, Production). By default, the page always defaults to the first one that is availab...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

lower() DB function renders idex on LSW_BPD_INSTANCE ineffective

Description of the issue; we started seeing “SQLCODE=-905, SQLSTATE=57014”. At that time, process instance creation was successful but all fetch operation failed. See ticket number - TS002094734; this ticket number failed the PMR validation above....
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Timeout parameter needed to prevent hung threads caused from WSDL loading

It would be helpful if a timeout parameter is in place to prevent BPM from attempting to read a wsdl file
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

Expose getCurrentProcess to the JS API, along with other related methods

Within the JS Execution Context, there are methods available to get the currently running Process, and Process Item. If these were exposed to the JS API, we would not have to resort to using unsupported/unexposed product features. Currently, this ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Linked CSHS

Linked CSHS would be a nice feature in cases where you want to build a common CSHS and reuse that in other CSHS.
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

BPM role-based access control policy report

In order to review quarterly user access reviews Business wants to receive Customer Management Group report.
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Need a Way to purge scheduled UCA Jobs that are created due to looping in a fail UCA.

FernandoTorres (IBM)14 Nov 2018 11:41 AMHello Daniel, that is true. UCA's will not be associated with any instances, so deleting instances will do nothing. Also, if these are just UCA's, unfortunately, the tool in the Process Admin Console does on...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Connector between snowflake data base from IID apps

Connection to Snowflake DB from IID.
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Merge Business Object when Task is completed using REST API

Currently when an external implementation in the Process is completed the whole BO has to be sent otherwise some of the fields in the BO gets null. Thus we have to do GET Data and then complete with the changes in the BO. We should have a way to m...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration