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 for a copy between branches to preserve object IDs in WebPD

If you are copying assets between branches/tracks when you use the default copy in WebPD it will automatically generate new PO IDs. This will cause dependencies to break if you are using a toolkit and for instance migration to encounter problems d...
1 day ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

PFS saved search to support TWSearch JS API

Client is running on BAW on premise. They have TWSearch JS API in applications, and users are using saved search in Process Portal. The problem is, client gets saved search query performance issue in PROD from time to time, and they have big runti...
1 day ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Provide a new tool for Building, Creating and maintaining the Custom Query table

We have several BPEL Processes in which we implemented the standard functionality of the query tables. We always used the procedure described in the documentation of the IBM Business Automation Workflow and before for BPM and WPS: Creating query t...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Submitted

Request support for Oracle 23ai database for Business Automation Workflow

Business Automation Workflow does not currently support Oracle 23ai. This is important to customers currently on Oracle 19c, which will reach end of life in April 2026.
9 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Support for additonal databases ( like MariaDB and MySQL) with Business Automation Workflow

We request the addition of support for MariaDB and MySQL as official database options for IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW).
21 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

IID 21.0.3 Support of Windows11

We would like to use IBM Integration Designer 21.0.3 in Windows 11 environment.However, No mention of Windows11 in the following article. https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity-reports/report/html/softwareReqsForProduct?deliver...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

WebPD: Ability to debug instances running on Inactive snapshot

In an online/connected workflow server environments, Desktop PD has the ability to debug instances running in Active and Inactive snapshots. However with the Web PD, we only have the ability to debug the instances running on the Active snapshot. C...
22 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

AI-Powered Process Optimization

Integrate AI and machine learning algorithms to analyze process data and suggest optimizations. This could help in identifying bottlenecks, predicting outcomes, and recommending improvements.
24 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Documented REST API for updating EPV on branch level like it is available for ENV variables

Please add the POST /std/bpm/containers/{container}/branches/{branch}/epvs to the OAS documentation at /bpm/explorer/?url=/bas/ops/docs#/Environment%20VariableI saw it is already used in Process Admin for Tip branch EPV setting but it is not docum...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

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