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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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Enabling Kerberos Auth Mechanism in PFS 19.0.0.3 to External Elastic Search

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about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Web designer click and drag gives ugly results

When moving items around on the Web Designer canvas, lines get redrawn incorrectly. See attached screenshots for before and after.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

Web Designer Code editors need better JavaScript linter

All of the JavaScript code editors in the Web Designer have very simple JavaScript code checking, which means they cannot detect certain syntax errors. This means developers have to rely on visual inspection to assess code correctness, which is ve...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under 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...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under 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...
over 8 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...
over 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Clear text Submission of password

The Sensitive data like password are sent into clear text, it becomes easy for the attacker to sniff the network and get the sensitive data.It was found that the password is being transferred in clear text.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Optimize eclipse.ini

The eclipse.ini of the Desktop Process Designer is not optimal
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Test services

It would be nice to be able to mark Client Side Human Service as a test service if needed. This would mean 2 things: 1. that the test service can be binded as a test service to some artifact like other services, CV, BO, etc. 2. (less important) th...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

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 ...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration