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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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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:

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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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  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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Please add EPV and ENV binding options in CV

Please add (next to "Business Data", "Configuration Options" and "Localization Resources") ability to bind EPVs and ENVs in "Variables Declarations" in "Variables" in Coach View designer. You already have "Exposed Process Variables" and "Environme...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

No Code environment to define workflows

Summary Web Process Designer environment is too complex to create a process for a persona with limited technical skills. There is a need for a much simpler No Code tool to configure workflows from pre-defined project-specific components that can b...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Workplace - Allow configuration of a default view

Workplace allows you to define custom views but does not allow you to define a default view per user group and/or per desktop. The default view used when opening Workplace should be configurable by user group and/or by desktop.
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Refactor the Input and output mapping for Processes

You recently changed the way we assigned input/output data to a System Task while designing a Process. But honestly this is not good at all : it's a complete waste of time to work with the new design. 1) you cannot see the input/output data of the...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to import / export saved searches

It'll be a very useful to provide "export / import" features around saved searches to enable re-usability.
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

In WorkflowCentre, there is a requirement where process instance variables need to be updated based on events sent from external services.

Requirement where process instance variables need to be updated based on events sent from external services. For this, the event subprocess functionality can be used. However, when using Event subprocesses, the correlation variable picks up the va...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add the officially support for Git as software configuration management systems in IBM Integration Designer.

IBM Integration Designer has officially support about only Concurrent Versions System (CVS) and Rational Team Concert (RTC) as software configuration management systems.Git is considered a common software configuration management systems, could yo...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Provide mechanism to limit authorization for BAW OnCloud service accounts to specific BAW exposed REST Service endpoints

Currently when a service account is created in the BAW OnCloud instance, it has access to any out of the box REST endpoints or REST Service that is developed as part of a solution. It would be very beneficial if, when provisioning or after creatio...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Documented REST API for updating EPV on branch level like it is available for ENV variables

Please add the POST /std/bpm/containers/{container}/branches/{branch}/epvs to the OAS documentation at /bpm/explorer/?url=/bas/ops/docs#/Environment%20VariableI saw it is already used in Process Admin for Tip branch EPV setting but it is not docum...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add versioning utility to BAW Case

Our team uses IBM Case Manager for our solution - SEB Case. Through the experience working with IBM Case Manager's Case Builder we noted difficulties tracking the changes of solution especially after changes were committed. Therefore there are no ...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration