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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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Federated Process portal task list refresh on events

Currently, the federated tasks list for work or any saved search is refreshed periodically (default: 60 seconds). This behavior is causing confusion for customers, as they are unsure whether their tasks are being completed until they manually refr...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Integrate Open telemetry into BAW

Proactively Monitor BAW Server as per their business requirement
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Create nested BAW internal groups when creating BAW internal groups from a process application deployment

Internal groups are also created implicitly during a process application deployment if the snapshot includes security groups that do not exist on the target system. But, if those internal groups have nested internal groups, those nested groups are...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Link to Case: documents(FileNet/CMOD) attached to case must have On Hold symbol/icon

Currently it is confusing if attached/Link documents are not having On Hold symbol. Client as Well IBM will benefit. When user link FileNet/CMOD documents to the case, that documents must show the On Hold icon/symbol against each document. Current...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 8 Not under consideration

WebPD compatibility with Internet Explorer 11

After updating the BAW from 20.0.0.1 To 21.0.3.1, WebPD URLs are not opening in IE. We have opened a cases TS016251380, TS016277223 and TS016924100 and IBM suggested to use Modern Browser. When Application teams are using modern browsers, they are...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Integration of Cloud Pak for Business Automation with knowMore

BPCE, among many customers, uses K-now - Knowmore product (https://www.knowmore365.com/en/solutions/k-now/) that offers real-time contextual guidance for easy digital adoption and enhanced user experience on their applications. This REF is a reque...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

how can I validate the deployment is successfully installed in BAW -REST application ?

how can I validate the deployment is successfully installed in BAW -REST application ?
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

WEB PD does not maintain last open session/page like eclipse PD and default always to process app tab

WEB PD does not maintain last page session like eclipse PD and default always to process app tab. For example : When you click on "back to workflow center" it always go to process app tab even you were in toolkits tabs last time or opened a toolki...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Allow re-link of BO types in REST and Web service

If discovered BOs needed in another context may BOs are moved to a toolkit for reusability. Currently isn't possible to change link in BOs in discovered services.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Let developer decide if BOs should be created when discovering a REST or Web service

If a developer discovers a REST or Web service needed BOs are created. I this BOs are needed in different context they may moved to a toolkit. If developer has to re-discover REST or Web service, BOs are re-created if system can't find BOs in curr...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration