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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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Allow role-based security around ability to see Saved Searches in Process Federation Server

Allow role-based security on saved searches to only allow users to see searches for which they are authorized in Process Federation Server. Since we have many different processes and numerous saved searches implemented in BPM, we have the need to ...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Removing the metadata from Rest API response

The Rest API response always has the metadata piece in it and there is no way for you to remove the metadata from the response like how you do for the parts. You should give another option below the parts checkbox to remove the metadata from the r...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

BPM Coach not redirected back to login screen after timeout

BPM Coach does not automatically redirect users to the login screen when a session times out. Instead the information on the screen remains as is even after hours. Only when user tries to take any action, it then redirects to login page. This may ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Web Process Designer Zoom

Editor text font sizes are too small. Everything else is distorting when we use zoom feature in the browser. Can editor features be enchanced?
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Date Time Picker with Calendar Icon

Presently there is no visual difference between Date Time Picker control and Text control unless the user clicks on Date Time Picker to open the Calendar. It would be nicer to have a calendar icon as an indicator for the Date Time Picker.It can al...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

BPM Process Portal Improvements

Watson Health uses BPM to implement internal processes to support compliance and control user access. Watson Health personnel use Process Portal to interact with these processes.
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Support unstructured DBs on IBM BPM such as Postgres, MongoDB

We want to use unstructured DBs on IBM BPM such as Postgres, MongoDB etc
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

BPM should upgrade logging framework from log4j to log4j2

BPM is still using log4j version 1. Version 2 has been out for a few years now and has performance improvements and other improvements in it. The logger configuration file has a different syntax in version 2.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

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

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

log4j 1.x jar support ended. Upgrade log4j.jar versions to 2.15 and above

We understand that log4j1.x jars are used in the product not vulnerable but the older version of the jar can carry lot more other vulnerabilities.
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered