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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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Implement EDS service for case properties in CSHS

Actually Implement EDS service for case properties in CSHS is not supported. Is it possible to implement EDS Service at Case Details Adapter (Human Services) as it already implemented at Case Details?
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Use a newer version of Javascript in BAW

JAVASCRIPT ES5 is currently used by BAW. In order to manage sequential calls and integrate client javascript modules, we'll need to use a newer version of Javascript
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

See task details of a task assign to my teammates

As a simple member of a team (no manager), I want to see all the tasks of the team (even those who are assigned to other users). I also want to see task detail of tasks assigned to a teammate (no actions available, but information displayed)
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Search tasks according to functional metadatas

We need a REST API that allow to search BPM process tasks according to functional metadatas that are declared on tasks. For now, we are juste able to find, calling REST API, processes and then loop on all tasks of this process.
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Make it possible to set TaskAtRiskDate

Our customer is using the TaskAtRiskDate to determine which tasks needs to get immediate attention.A task at risk date which is calculated with historical duration of other tasks is useless for them.This needs to be calculated by logic which can d...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Set retention period via REST API call

Retention period for a case folder in ACCE can be set manually, but there is no REST API call available for that. Would it be possible to expose a REST API call for setting the Retention period and document it in the existing Case Manager REST API...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Default sort for case documents widget

When the user opens a case, the document widget defaults to sorting by "Document Title / Document Name". The business is requesting the default sort be on "Date Added / Added On" instead. Currently we can't find a way to change the default sort or...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

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.
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

New user name (LSW_USR_XREF.USER_NAME) should be updated if re-created regardless of upper and lower case changes.

BAW manages user as case insensitive. So if re-creating user again with different case(ex. old='TESTUSER', new='testuser'), BAW treats new lowercase user as the same user as old uppercase user. We understand that this is working as designed, and n...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improve Team filters: dynamici recalc and manage members

Team filters currently calculate a set of members once, then store it in an ad-hoc group which is static and inaccessible to the developer. Team filters should allow (optional) dynamic re-calculation of their members, so that changes in the user p...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration