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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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Ability to make discretionary case activity name Uneditable Or Remove the Field "Enter A Name" while creating an activity

We are using IBm Business Automation Workflow ( On Prem) V 19.0.0.1. When we Add a Activity to a case, there are 2 optiosn that appear :1. Select a Type2. Enter a name When value in Select a Type is selected from the Dropdown, it is automatically ...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Migrate snapshot and comparison capabilities from Eclipse PD to Web PD

Interamerican would like to use snapshots comparison functionality, as this was available to eclipse PD.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Copy variable to JSON in Data section of WPD Inspector

It would be very useful to have Copy to JSON functionality when inspecting objects in Web Process Designer. In Data section there could be a button for each variable (and its param and param of param and so on). Please refer to uploaded image "Cop...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

Add Execution Evaluator to Web PD

Execution Evaluator is currently available in the Desktop Process Designer but has been deprecated in Web Designer. With the release of BAW, Desktop Process Designer is going away with no replacement for the Execution Evaluator.
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

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

Real Estate in Web Process Designer

From ALLIANZ LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES NORTH AMERICA: Real estate is an issue in Web PD compared to Desktop PD.
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Ability to copy and paste comments from/to the comments widget

Business requirement is to have A Comment Widget available on the screen (and not on click of a button) so as to make sure the case handler(s) can enter a manual comment at any time - Main requirement in this Comment Widget is that the case handle...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

We need existing features available in Eclipse PD added in Web PD.

When Process Application users report issues, our DevOps Team use the capability currently provided in Eclipse PD, to troubleshoot and resolve the issues then document in an incident ticket. With functionality removed in WebPD, our DevOps Team wil...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

Nutanix AHV support

Nutanix AHV(Acropolis Hypervisor) is becoming major hypervisor technology for enterprise use. IBM Business Automation Workflow should support Nutanix AHV as supported hypervisor technology.
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered