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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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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...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Move Token API should prevent the move of a token on a top level process when there are active token in the sub processes

We had a condition in which a task in a sub process (2 nested level) was in a failed state. We moved the token on the parent process, and this break the execution tree of the process instance causing the process instance to be in an unmanageable s...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

User management trail functionality for system auditing

Many BAW user companies are required to prepare SOC report (System and Organization Controls) on a regular basis. The report should include when users and groups in the system were created, when they were deleted, etc. In the BAW, users are often ...
about 1 year 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

Finding toolkit references/usage in Process Application

We have several Process Applications in our environment with > 15 toolkit dependencies. When we want to upgrade or remove any unneeded toolkit dependencies, there is no efficient way to check whether a process application is referencing or usin...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Feature to register when an email is sent with a successful status (by the workflow tasks)

The customer wants a feature to monitor and register when an email sending is completed with a failed or success status. The reason behind this need is to bring evidence in case of an internal auditing. As a service provider company, my customer g...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Needs more information

Option to block upload for .doc extension or feature to convert from .doc to .docx

When a customer upload a .doc in the beginning of the workflow, the base64 of a .doc fail to receive some headers and footer components, causing the flow to fail. There is no chance of educating the customer users from uploading .doc documents and...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Needs more information

Modularize the Case tab in a way that allows some components to be hidden.

The customer needs an easy and quick way to make some items/options, like properties, unavailable to some users to avoid human error. CPFL created a ticket asking for assistance with this, but the support team suggested an RFE or customization due...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Needs more information

Make the FileNet local groups feature available on BAW.

The customer has hierarchy tasks created and distributed on FileNet that doesn’t replicate on BAW. The idea is to import/use the existing local groups to have a better control of the users and roles. In the case of an AD failure or expressive chan...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Future consideration

Include Gantt Chart and Diagram feature in BAW or a similar view for workflows

There is a limitation of using federated Process Portal with BAW product, the Gantt Chart feature is not available in the container version. Although in several cases, a complete diagram workflow shows the user more information or details of the w...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration