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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Search through code in application

The product would be greatly enhanced by having a simple search-option, to find where specific code is used. Would also be great if it supported RegEx. It would be plenty enough if it was usable to find code in Javascript/InputOutput bindings, and...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

CSHS - Allow Multiple outgoing connections from nested services.

In CSHS nested services, currently we are allowed to have multiple end events. But the limitation of having only single outbound connection prevents us from directly mapping those connections. Due to this, We have to use a decision gateway and dec...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Support BAW Designer for CNCF

Business Automation Workflow has been made available on CNCF Kubernetes clusters. However, it's nowhere documented that this does not cover the development environment (workflow center). For consistency, clients ask for a CNCF version of the devel...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

It is recommended to set the default "document class" when uploading through "document Explorer"

When uploading documents in case activities (BPM), users need to select "document class", which is inconvenient. In particular, if the user does not select the correct "document class", the subsequent process will fail to achieve the expected goal...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Planned for future release

Support for IIS using WebSphere Plugin for BAW Product

The BAW server and the ICN/ICM Server are configured to run all services using the WebSphere Plugins through IIS. This configuration doesnt work and we receive below errors: [6/20/22 13:31:28:025 EDT] 000000ed SystemOut O CIWEB.ICMAPIPlugin Error...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

An Efficient way to pause in bulk a bunch of different instances

We had the need to pause all the process instances related to a single BPD process definition (BPMn) due to the maintenance of a remote server used by them. We had more that 150k instances running only on that process application. We tried to use ...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Writing or generating PDF and Excel files

In many kinds of organizations, customers need to download some business data as a file (pdf, excel, and etc.). But our IBM BAW does not have any out-of-the-box feature to achieve this basic frequent requirement. IBM confirmed it in TS008160848. I...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Make terminated instances recoverable

When a process instance is terminated it is not possible to recover the instance. This means that if an instance is terminated by accident it takes complex manual intervention to recover. If the number of instances terminated is large the task bec...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow passing in null value for Integer and Decimal Input Variables in Client Side Human Services

Client-Side Human Services (CSHS) currently initialize integer and decimal variable types to 0 for Input and Private variables that are undefined or null. This is different behavior from Heritage Human Services (HHS) which does not do this. Also S...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Request to add Horizonatal configuration to radio button control

for the radio button control there's need to be a configuration option for displaying the buttons in horizontal order.
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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