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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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Role Process Application Administrators should be able to access environment variables of their process application in Process Admin Console

At VKB we are currently discussing the use of the role „Process Application Administrators“. Our understanding about such a role is different to how it is implemented in BAW. Users in the role „Process Application Administrators“ have the appropri...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Disable process status summary for non tw_admins users

In production, our Developers or other users are not part of tw_admins. However, they are still able to see all the Process Apps in the Process Status Summary Page. We would like to have a way to disable the visibility of all process applications ...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Cache the Solution information when the Solution is deployed

When a user logs on to Case Client, ICMAPIPlugin GetSolutionInformation is called to get the Solution information such as Case Types and Case properties. When user accesses Work page for Inbaskets, another same call is for Task Properties. So if t...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

SMTP username and password authentication

Case TS003547354 Currently, there is no way for IBM BAW to use SMTP server that requires username and password authentication. This applies for both process center and server.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow re-link of BO types in REST and Web service

If discovered BOs needed in another context may BOs are moved to a toolkit for reusability. Currently isn't possible to change link in BOs in discovered services.
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Let developer decide if BOs should be created when discovering a REST or Web service

If a developer discovers a REST or Web service needed BOs are created. I this BOs are needed in different context they may moved to a toolkit. If developer has to re-discover REST or Web service, BOs are re-created if system can't find BOs in curr...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Desktop PD custom css attributes wrongly encoded in Web PD

We have an application developed in Heritage Human Service (HHS) with controls of Coaches toolkit and wanted to start to use Web Process Designer. When we open a Coach in Web Process Designer and check a control with custom css attribute specifica...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Unit testing in Process/Workflow Center

Unit testing of individual services/components. The current approach to unit testing services is to create a test harness service for each service to be unit tested. This bloats the code base when installation package is created and deployed to Pr...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Multiple endpoints should be allowed to connect to same next step in Parent service like eclipse Process designer

We have hundreds of toolkits and PA in environment where sometime multi end points in some common toolkits services need to connect to same next step in parent(implementor) service. This is valid business case for many Authors and common toolkits....
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Pagination issue

Current functionality works that you always end up in the first page after a case closure/completion, but not in the page from which specific case was opened. It would be much better that after case closure you would end up in the same page from w...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration