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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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WebPD slow down Autoscrolling (horizontal/vertical)

Autoscrolling (horizontal/vertical) during modelling is too fast - not useful. Possibility to set speed manually
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

WebPD JavaScript code completion for var (existed in Desktop PD)

Increased productivity
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Break Points For Debugging

Most IDE has break points as they are very useful for debugging purposes.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 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 1 year 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 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Starting an activity (process) directly displays the process UI

Now, the user starts a process and needs to click again to open the process interface, which is fine in Workplace and Portal, but in Case Client: 1. The user initiates an activity (process) 2. The user can only see the task after clicking "work"...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

When using the get next function, if the user picks the last item in the inbasket they get a message "no more work items" when the dispatch the work item

The behavior where if the last work item is picked, and it reports 'no more items' is the behavior that was inherited from the prior release and is how the in-basket current processes work. If the customer would like it to behave differently, then...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Dynamic Filter for all the inbaskets on page load

We have implemented Dynamic Filter for all the inbaskets, on initial load only first inbasket is filtering and other for inbaskets after clicking on them they are filtering but not on initila load. Have a way to filter all the inbaksets for a spec...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Allow subfolder creation via the "Document Explorer" widget

We can use the "Document Explorer" widget in case tasks but if we point to a case subfolder, then it is not possible to create a lower level subfolder. Subfolder creation should be possible at any level and not only at parent case folder level.
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Add the Ability to View Previous Snapshots and the Copy to Tip Functionality to Web Designer

In desktop designer, we can view processes and service implementations of prior snapshots. We also have a copy to tip functionality. If we find that we need to go back to a prior version of a process or service implementation, we can go to the sid...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered