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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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Hide CMIS query objects when running a service

As per security team recommendation, Information that can help attackers to have an idea of backend query should not be disclosed in HTTP requests and such queries should not be constructed at server end.
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to import / export saved searches

It'll be a very useful to provide "export / import" features around saved searches to enable re-usability.
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

In WorkflowCentre, there is a requirement where process instance variables need to be updated based on events sent from external services.

Requirement where process instance variables need to be updated based on events sent from external services. For this, the event subprocess functionality can be used. However, when using Event subprocesses, the correlation variable picks up the va...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Separate Case Deployments from Infrastructure/Product Deployments strictly

When deploying Case Manager artefacts, the approach in 23.0.2 is inconsistent: While most deployment activities can be done using the caseswagger API https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/23.x?topic=solutions-case-swagger-apis There are 3 deployment act...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide Revision History Feature in WebPD

This feature is available in Desktop PD but not available in WebPD. This can be very essential for the developers to see the change history and revert back the code to any prior change point.
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Provide mechanism to limit authorization for BAW OnCloud service accounts to specific BAW exposed REST Service endpoints

Currently when a service account is created in the BAW OnCloud instance, it has access to any out of the box REST endpoints or REST Service that is developed as part of a solution. It would be very beneficial if, when provisioning or after creatio...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Nested Service flow caching

It would be nice if "Service flow" caching would work even on child/nested service flows. Now caching only works on the top-level Service Flow. If you enable caching on a child flow, the option will be ignored, and the service will be executed eve...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

To have Revision history and the snapshot history in the Web PD

In the Web PD, it is not possible to see the Revision History and the list of snapshots that are already snapped in a particular process app/toolkit. For the artifacts that can only be developed and viewed in Web PD, like CSHS, Service Flow, Proce...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Add the officially support for Git as software configuration management systems in IBM Integration Designer.

IBM Integration Designer has officially support about only Concurrent Versions System (CVS) and Rational Team Concert (RTC) as software configuration management systems.Git is considered a common software configuration management systems, could yo...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Vault Integration for Postgres RDS Creds in BAW on Container

Customer: Discover Financial Services Product: Business Automation Workflow on Containers version : 22.x onwards Discover Financial Services Design Pattern is to have postgres credentials in vault and pods can fetch the credentials through init co...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration