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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).


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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,

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  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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Bulk cleanup of task and process instances

There are some cases in which task and process instances are created and left abandoned.It can then be visually completed and deleted using Process Inspector.It is also possible to complete and delete them using the REST API below. /rest/bpm/wle/v...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Functionality already exists

Task Mining - recognition of task variants

Group user tasks into different execution patterns (e.g., 3 ways to approve an invoice) and identify best practices
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Functionality already exists

Support for Nutanix AHV 6.10

We have support for CP4BA on Nutanix AHV 5.10 With up-gradation of environment in customer DC, the new infrastructure is all on Nutanix ANV 6.10. Request is to add Nutanix ANV 6.10 in the supported infrastructure.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Functionality already exists

Change the SQL Server user password after RPA installation

Change the product so that you can change the SQL Server user password after installing RPA.
over 6 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere Functionality already exists

Allow a parameter to the Bulk Instance Details REST API method to only bring back the executionTree

We have situations where we need to move the token. The only place to get the token ids (that we have found) is the Bulk Instance Details method in the REST API. It brings back everything. We would like to have an option for the parts parameter to...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow Functionality already exists

Request tool for the IBM BAW instances and tasks migration to CP4BA BAW environment

Hi, Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC has successfully acquired the IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) platform as part of our continued efforts to modernize and streamline business process automation capabilities. We are currently undertak...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow Functionality already exists

We would like to see CMOD function with passwordless IDs, esp. for ARS* tasks or remote connections.

Currently all ARS* started tasks and any remote connections that we have to CMOD use an ID and password wherein the passwords are stored in the stash file during the instance creation. Recently there were some issues occurred wherein the IDs got r...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) Functionality already exists

View on the dates of the process

When filtering for a single practice, it would be useful to see the timestamp of individual activities in the model page in order to avoid to download a CSV to do analysis on the individual case.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Functionality already exists

Capability to have JWT authentication for BPM REST Endpoints as provider for consumer applications

Capability to have JWT authentication for BPM REST Endpoints as provider for consumer applications. Currently it is Basic Authentication but since majority of the enterprise are on more robust authentication patterns such as JWT, it will make more...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow Functionality already exists

Move Processes and Tasks from One Installation to Another

Need an option for move completed instances and tasks from one installation to another (ex: CP4BA)
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow Functionality already exists