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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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Cloud Pak for Business Automation

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UI_Preferred_Logon prohibits to add users or groups to the ZEN administration

Our endusers would like to be brought directly to navigator after having selected the URL in their brwosers. We are using OICD and this works great. Because we want to supress the dialog where you could select the authentication methods we have co...
25 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Implement the Token-Exchange protocol extension of oauth

Our organization's identity architects have been working with security architects and deemed a change needs to be made at our organization. They are calling for the eventual adoption of "Token Exchange" features of oauth. We integrate with 20+ tea...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Adding Cases view in Workplace

In the IBM documentation it is stated that "Workplace brings together process, case, and workstream functions" but there is currently no Cases view which requires users to constantly navigate between Workplace and Cases. For the sake of consistenc...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Adding clickable link properties for use in Activity detail or Worklplace

In order to facilitate interactions with external systems, "Clickable link" property types should be defined so that they can be displayed as a real link in Navigator activity details and in Workplace tasks.
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Define and retain Workplace's user default view in user preferences

In Workplace users can create custom views but they cannot have a default personnal view.Users should be able to define their default view and it shoukd be kept in the user's preferences so that they can systematically return to their default view...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Link between documents and case / activity

Allow to link a document to an activity in order to be able to open the corresponding activity or case directly from the document.
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Management of replacements and absences from Workplace

Allow management of substitutes, absences and automatic reassignment of tasks from Workplace, similar to what was possible via the “My Substitutes” / “I am absent” checkbox in Business Process Choreographer Explorer. The activation of absence per...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Allow activities to be renamed when created

In the case detail "Activities" tab we can have many activities of the same type and it is then difficult for users to find their way. It should be possible to rename / customize the label of the activities when they are created to make the list ...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Default language per desktop

Language and locale settings can be changed by users but cannot be set per default at the ICN desktop level to avoid all users having to change them.
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Language and locale settings persited server-side

Language and locale settings can be changed by the users but are not persisted on the server side. If the user changes browser, workstation or cleans his cookies, he must therefore redefine his language and regional settings. If the parameters ar...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted