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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).


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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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Add versioning utility to BAW Case

Our team uses IBM Case Manager for our solution - SEB Case. Through the experience working with IBM Case Manager's Case Builder we noted difficulties tracking the changes of solution especially after changes were committed. Therefore there are no ...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

support for Long type (or equivalet)

BPM is a widely used product, which integrates with many different systems. Long type is also a widely used data type, which many systems use and send/receive.BPM must support such a common type, in order for the integration with all the other sys...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Purging the active process instances based on date criteria

We would like to do bulk purge/delete/terminate the active process instances, which are modified by certain date. We can do the smaller amount of processes in the Process Inspector. But we have around 1 million active processes, which are modified...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

How to automatically retrieve team/user/group permissions and authority that are defined individually for each Process App as a list in a batch.

Right now, the configuration is visually checked for each Process App (snapshot) from Designer, which makes it difficult to make simple comparisons and prone to errors.For example, we would like a way to automatically extract settings and permissi...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Export / import process instances from a backup in case of disaster or loss of data

Sometimes it could happens that a process instance get lost, and we would being able to import this instance without impacting on the running instance. Let me pose 2 examples: Example 1: During a disaster a lot of instance could have been lost, bu...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 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...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM BPM Process Admin - User Management - Missing Audit Log Trails

In our enterprise the BPM software possesses a high vulnerability security risk. This risk is raised because the User Management functionality of the BPM's Process Admin console is incapable to track or log any event for user role modification. In...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Time-based filter for Swagger "/bpm/processes" and "/bpm/user-tasks" APIs.

Swagger "/bpm/processes" and "/bpm/user-tasks" APIs can retrieve and get a list of process and task instances with instance data. These APIs can get instance data with "optional_parts=data". So, the results can be used as audit data of instances f...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support additionalProperties in OpenAPI Spec

additionalProperties in the OpenAPI spec is not currently supported in BAW per the following documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/22.x?topic=30-restrictions-invoking-rest-api-service It would be very useful to have more of the OpenAPI sp...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

MQ integration using integration.jar

Hi, We are trying to BAW with MQ i.e. trigger process in BAW when messages arrive on queue. We are using jmsIntegration.jar. The api's available in this jar allows reading only one message at a time. Since we want to try avoiding long running loop...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration