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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

Business Automation Workflow

    Offer more Customization Options for IBM Workplace

    Currently, customizing IBM Workplace is not supported, which stands in contrast to the flexibility previously available in IBM Process Portal. At the moment, the only supported option is to build a completely standalone work portal using the four ...
    21 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

    To open a feature request to ask for support for overloading BAW business data types.

    BAW should be able to differentiate between an TW class object and a custom object of the same object type- Currently, data/origin needed to differentiate between the two types is not preserved in the current BAW product. It is taking whichever is...
    about 6 hours ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Rediscover option for external services

    If an external service is created based on the discovery of a Java, REST, or Web Service, a rediscover button is essential. This button would enable the updating of the methods associated with that service or defined object structure without the n...
    2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

    High priority tasks/instances should appear on top always in process portal

    There is a business requirement where High priority tasks/instances should appear on top always in work - process portal. Even if it's under saved searches it must always appear on top as soon as portal opens without any mouse click. On Page /Portal.
    13 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Submitted

    Spellchecker included within the Rich Text UI control.

    Users would be able to utilize a generic spell checker within the control, avoiding the need to export and re-import text just to check spelling.
    18 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Decouple BAW and CPE due to licensing issue

    Currently, it is not possible that Process Portal to be used (without repository - CPE) in a CP4BA environment, as it is tightly coupled currently. The operator configures CPE URL, its credentials, its connection information as part of the BAW pod...
    5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

    Enhance Case Client “Create Package” export to derive file extensions from MIME type

    Environment Product: IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) Version: 21.0.x Platform: IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) Deployment: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) 4.16 Component: Case Client / Case Package expor...
    3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

    Support offsetting processInstanceId on new cp4ba/baw/wfps installations.

    We are migrating from TWAS BAW to CP4BA and duplicate ProcessInstanceID (PIID)'s will become an issue for us. We use this ID many places in systems external to BAW and in custom database tables. And it will be a huge and risky change to support th...
    about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    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)
    5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    BAW and MDM - currently in the IBM security portal there is no option to identify version specific vulnerabilities, as customer its hard to identify version specific vulnerabilities currently available in out eco system

    Currently, in the IBM Security Portal, there is no option to identify version-specific vulnerabilities for BAW and MDM. As a customer, this makes it challenging to track, assess, and prioritize risks for the specific versions deployed in our ecosy...
    14 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

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