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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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Expose RESTful services from process app

Similar to the way we can define/expose Web Services in Process Designer, we'd like to be able to define RESTful services that can be exposed, including a swagger to be downloaded (analogously to the WSDL that is generated automatically when defin...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Search option in Single select control

We require a search option in the SPARK UI single select control. The legacy controls based on the Dojo toolkit had the option of searching the dropdown values by typing .After migration our business users are facing issues and have to manually sc...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

be able to switch to LDAP group if same-named BPM group already exists (without the chaos that deleting the BPM group causes)

The current requirement to delete the BPM security group before the same-named LDAP group can be recognized is too destructive: • The deleted security group also might have been a nested group for some other BPM security group. There is not a UI t...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Same behavior of automatic syntax assistance for java script syntax and content like in Eclipse PD wanted in Web PD

VKB developers want automatic syntax assistance for java script syntax and content to show up during typing, like it was in Eclipse/Desktop PD. In Web PD it is only available by pressing Ctrl+space.VKB developers liked the automatic assistance dur...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Hiding Saved Search from Process Portal

We want to create the saved searches and expose them to users group so it can be used in the custom Inbox. But we do not want to show those saved searches to the users in the Portal.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

IBM BPM - Saved Search Filter on multiple values

In the saved search we want to see the tasks from two different Process Apps. Is this possible by creating a Saved Search filter from the portal. The screenshot is for 1 process app. I want to do it for 2 process apps (Please refer attached)
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

508 Issue - Search Page Widget – Unlabeled Search By Field

This issue was original opened as a PMR but the Product Team asked the it be submitted as an Enhancement Request. The PMR Number is TS002789819 (it wouldn't let me add to this form due to new PMR Number formatting) Also, this Enhancement Request i...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

samesite=strict attribute should be set

TS002586394 Customer reported vulnerabilities as part of penetration testing which needs samesite attribute to be set either Strick or Lax. BAW 18.0.0.2 & WAS 8.5.5.14 https://bpmetispa.ilab.discoverfinancial.com/ProcessAdmin/ProcessAdmin/com....
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Make required fields actually required in a CSHS

If you set visibility to "Required" for a field in a CSHS, the system only puts in an asterisk. You have to do a lot of work to make it actually become a required field! If I set a field to Required, it should be Required!
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Removal of Struts Currently using in BPM & Websphere

Business Automation Workflow- The Process Admin console or portal is using Struts framework with higher vulnerabilities IBM BPM product should move out for other frameworks instead using Struts. WebSphere - The administrative console in WebSphere ...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered