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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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Allow Case workitem email notifications to open the item directly so the user can review and take action

Current email notification links direct the user to the in-basket instead of the worktime they need to process.
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Delivered

Use GIT or Artifactory for Process Snapshots instead of Workflow Center

Use GIT or Artifactory for Process Snapshots instead of Workflow Center
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Workplace integrates Case Client functionality

Now there are three portals: Portal, Workplace, and Case Client, which are very inconvenient for customers to use.Please integrate Case Client into Workplace, such as attached picture.When the user clicks "Case" in the picture, the case created by...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Case activity permissions need to be more precise

1. Case has many activities 2. Each activity corresponds to a different BPM process 3. Each activity (BPM) has its own permissions. To view the activity (BPM) instance, you must be the instance owner (initiator, participant), otherwise you have no...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Add OR option to portal saved search filters

Our internal customers have asked us to provide a way to allow filters using OR when defining saved searches. They have told us of situation where this would be helpful, such as task subject contains Build or task subject contains Verify This c...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Selecting a later page in "Work" tab results in many API calls to reach that page.

When looking at the "Work" tab in Case Client, directly choosing a page other than the first one results in an ever-increasing number of API calls to the MergedWorklistService. The code is effectively calling “nextPage” until the desired page is r...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Do not present deactivated users as eligible for Task reassignment

Currently, Task reassignment can be performed through a number of UIs/Consoles. In some cases Users who are members of the Team that a Task was originally assigned to may have been deactivated. The UIs/Consoles that allow Task reassignment are not...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

让用户可以查看流程图

在传统BAW部署环境中,用户从ProcessPortal中可以查看流程图,并可以在流程图中看到流程走到哪个节点了。 但在Cloud Pak版本中,ProcessPortal、Workplace、工作仪表板中全部看不到。 这个功能,IBM应该继续使用,让用户的体验更好。
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Delivered

BAW Portal Dashboards Multiple Teams

In Process Portal you can save searches and share with a team. It would be nice if you can share with more then one team. We the Developers are the ones creating those custom dashboards for our users, by only be able to add one team my peers can't...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

PFS support for new releases of ElasticSearch

Process Federation Server (PFS) supports an externalized Elastic Search service at version 6.x of ES. Internally PFS uses the Elasticsearch Java High Level REST Client 6.1.4, and the Elasticsearch doc states that it supports interacting with&...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered