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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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Enhance Bulk API for BPM REST To Include Failure Responses

We are using BPM Advanced 8.5.7 currently using a 3-step process to use REST query/claim/finish call to update a task in received status for a given process instance. I would like IBM to reconsider it's approach to how the bulk API support is hand...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 6 Delivered

- User name details in Instance level reporting for concurrent users

User name details in Instance level reporting for concurrent users
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Reword prompt to enter email address to be more clear about ID to use

The initial prompt to login to BPMoC is ambiguous and doesn't indicate to users that "email address" is the expected input. Other IBM prompts are worded more clearly, and this RFE is to request that this prompt follow that convention. Good (such a...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Spark UI widget indicates when field is mandatory

When I set the Visibility configuration option of a Spark UI control to “REQUIRED”, I expect to see a little red asterisk (*) next to the label text to indicate that the field is mandatory. Older versions of BPM widgets, the Heritage Coaches, supp...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Automatically check if fields set as "required" on the page are empty

In the BPM page, you can set the visibility property (visibility) under the UI control of Plain Text to "required", but when the user submits the page, it does not automatically check whether it is empty, but needs to be set manually, which increa...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered