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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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Define a mode for automatically closing or not a workflow

Define a mode of automatic closing or non-automatic closing of a workflow: have the possibility to render an automatic closure in the tool (for example if in 5 days the workflow is not processed, the workflow closes automatically). <Définir un ...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Export, import a community pattern

Export, import a community pattern: make it possible to provide other institutions with the construction of the pattern in BAW so that the establishment programmer does not need to develop everything within his institution. <Exporter, importer ...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Generation of forms and HMIs no code

Generation of forms and no-code HMIs to allow a better dialogue between the tool, the user and the programmer <Génération des formulaires et des IHM no code afin de permettre un meilleur dialogue entre l'outil , l'utilisateur et le programmeur>
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Update to proxy settings configuration in BAW to add included-hosts list

Currently BAW has a way to configure proxy settings as defined in the documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/23.x?topic=properties-configuring-proxy-settings. Per this documentation, we have a way to exclude certain hosts that doesn't need...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BAW support for dynamic SSL configuration

In previous versions, users could secure BAW services by using the supplied keystore. BAW 19.0.0.3 accidentally no longer makes use of Custom SSL configuration.The BAW product would significantly benefit from enabling dynamic SSL configuration for...
over 4 years 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 ...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The "Set User Authentication" option is not available in WebPD when you remote debug into a PS.

Set User Authentication option is missing when process is run/debugged from remote process server. This option is used to run/debug human task with another test user id. Please refer PMR - TS006594335 for more details. It has videos & everythi...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Process Inspector: alphanumerical sorting the list of installed snapshots

In the left sidebar of the Process Inspector you can filter the instances based on certain Process App snapshots. The list of installed Process Apps are sorted, but for each Process App, the list of snapshots is not. (On some environments they see...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future 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...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Future consideration