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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 migrate dynamic teams from one snapshot to another

These are the teams generated by the 'team filter services' that prevent the purging of old snapshots
5 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Preserving sequence of toolkits when importing process apps

One of the steps during the migration is exporting all the process applications from existing process center on IPas (Workflow Center on Traditional WAS) and importing them into a new / empty process center on container / OpenShift platform (CP4BA...
8 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Support for distributed databases

We would like to request if distributed databases such as tdsql and GaussDB would be added to the database compatibility list for BAW and Datacap ?
2 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Enable the configuration of global libraries/shared libraries (java) (Ref case TS018621875)

Context: We are migrating from twas BAW 23.0.2 to latest CP4BA version. In our BAW process applications we use external services extensively. Mostly to integrate with in-house rest/soap services. These external services(java code) all read propert...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Integrate Absence Management Features into IBM BAW

In complex and long running processes implemented with IBM BAW where many different workers are involved in activities a way of managing absence of workers and specific named substitutes for taking over the ongoing activities is needed. IBM BAW un...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Support for Self-Hosting Carbon Design Fonts in Process Admin console UI to Enable Air-Gapped or Restricted Environments

The downloading of the CSS fonts is documented in recent versions of BAW. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/24.0.x?topic=servers-accessing-process-admin-console Note: It is expected that when you access the Process Admin Console, it downloads the CS...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

add ssl connection ability to bpmdc.sh

Only have secured communication allowed so not currently able to run the bpmdc.sh script to be able to dump tables for troubleshooting capabilities.
8 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Expanding the column Hight automatically for single select and text type a head to show the options

We have situation that requires the single select and text type a head to be in a table control and when the user try to select an option for the options section is not visible until we modified the Hight of the table cell, we need it to automatic...
8 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Enabling the scroll bars for text type a head control

We need to enable the scroll bars for the text type a head control to limit the size of the options panel and enable the users to scroll and select what they need
8 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Enable and disable of automatic selection of items if the typetext-ahead option is selected on the single select control

In IBM BAW Version 24.0.1, the single select control includes a configuration option that enables the type-ahead functionality, allowing users to search within the control. However, customers have encountered an issue where, if the control contain...
8 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted