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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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BAW CI/CD support to other Git hosts (e.g., Bitbucket and GitLab)

product support for BAW CI/CD support to other Git hosts (e.g., Bitbucket and GitLab)
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

add 'Current Date' within saved search filter

In both Process Portal saved searches and Workplace reusable searches, the current 'Due Date' filter only supports a calendar-based selection, requiring users to choose a specific date. However, the client needs to have saved search that shows end...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

We would like to integrate Business automation workflow with co-pilot

Integration of BAW with co-pilot would allow coding to be much quicker
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add LSW_TASK.READ_DATETIME attribute to TWTask JS API

I have a customer requirement to capture the date/time a task was claimed, but it appears that the only way to obtain this data is from the READ_DATETIME column in the LSW_TASK table - it is not exposed via the TWTask JS API. It would be very help...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add ability to access the 'description' attribute from TWRole objects via the JSAPI

When creating BAW roles, we like to use naming conventions like [ProcessAppAcronym]_[ApplicationRole]_[RegionIdentifier] which could give us the following for example: VET_StandardsReview_Region1, VET_StandardsReview_Region2, VET_Manager_Region1, ...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

A configurable option or built-in behavior to automatically close document viewer tabs when their associated case is closed.

This feature is useful because it would streamline the user interface and reduce confusion for users who work with multiple documents within cases. Users who frequently open documents from a case management system would benefit, as it would create...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide user-centric API which can show "direct" memberships to BPM "groups"

We want to be able to provision some new users who will have the same authority and visibility as some existing users.We are currently relying on a SQL query provided by our IBM Support Engineer, and are aware this isn't a "supported" technique be...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Pre-delete dependency check and cleanup utility: API to detect and optionally remove blocking Manager / manager-task dependencies before snapshot delete

When deleting process snapshots in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW), administrators often face failures caused by underlying Manager-task dependencies that are not visible in advance.These dependencies are typically created as part of in-fli...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Do not display implementation name for postponed task

When a user opens a task in a new window and selects the postpone option in that task, the CSHS implementation name will be displayed to the user. From a business perspective, this information should not be displayed to the user because the CSHS n...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide OpenAPI 3.x spec for internal BAW REST APIs

The out-of-the-box method for integrating with external REST services is to reference an OpenAPI 3.x spec. It would be nice for IBM to provide an OpenAPI 3.x spec for the internal BAW REST APIs (specifically those under the "IBM Business Automatio...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration