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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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Add "Email Send IBM BPM Email" service into System Data toolkit for BAW Container environment

Based on current BAW documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/22.x?topic=reference-system-data-toolkit "Email Send IBM BPM Email" service is not supported in BAW container version, which causes the existing applications developed from BAW on...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BPM Table Pagination - Add Configuration to get sequential pagination

The current stock table control is displaying the calculated pagination numbers with internal algorithm. At the moment there is no option to change it to standard pagination with sequential paging numbers. This RFE is to add a config to have conve...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

store the encrypted FileNet password into 2 locations

to store the encrypted FileNet password into 2 locations so that the hacker will not easily decrypt the password even the encryption key is being stolen
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

WebPD compatibility with Internet Explorer 11

After updating the BAW from 20.0.0.1 To 21.0.3.1, WebPD URLs are not opening in IE. We have opened a cases TS016251380, TS016277223 and TS016924100 and IBM suggested to use Modern Browser. When Application teams are using modern browsers, they are...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

IBM BAW to support DB schema name changes, as the current system only supports schema names matching the original, impacting our necessary DB refresh practice.

We are experiencing an issue with IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) related to the DB schema reference. Despite updating the database credentials in the WebSphere Application Server (WAS) console to the new username PRODICNDB, the system cont...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Ability to audit code changes in BAW.

We need to be able to trace 1. Who has changed the source code? 2. What time does the change occurred? 3. What has changed? That means every change that is made in the source code must be linked to an individual.This support does exist in Eclipse-...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

provide the parameters' chnage logic after upgrade

I found the JVM heap size is changed after I upgrade BPM from BPM8.5.6 to BAW(Business Automation Workflow)19.0.0.3.I set a value of 2GB for the JVM max heap size of my AppCluster application Server in my current version of BPM8.5.6.However I foun...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under 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...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Column naming visualization

Hello, After moving to IBAW, if column width is smaller then column name, name is shortened and "..." is put at its end. In previous version if column width was too small, column name was moved to the next line. If possible, we want to have old va...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Ability to change default sorting of documents attached to a case

When users rely on document attachments for work on cases, they may need to sort them on other fields than the document name.
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Functionality already exists