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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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Modern Low-Code UI Designer for Coaches

Introduce a React- or Angular-based coach designer with drag-and-drop components, real-time previews, and built-in responsive design.
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

There should be a kind of BPM API to get business data of an instance and according to it, to get another business data (which is Instance ID).

Once a checkbox is selected, there should be a service called, so customer would like to get all the instance IDs that should have service working. Hence, they need to make a call, that takes all instances and checks whether particular checkbox is...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 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 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Remove the character restriction for #$\&=^ in Business Automation Workflow

Business Automation Workflow advanced software doesn't accept the usage of specific characters including #$\&=^ in the external or internal passwords, citing the invalid characters usage in the password from command line tools: "property has a...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BMPConfig tool is failing to create deployment environment because of the hyphen(-) in the DB user ID and in the databases name (ex: CMN-DB)

Our service accounts are generated with hyphen(-) in the ID using the automation process and we are unable to remove the hyphen(-) from the service account ID to support the working terminology of the service accounts. Due to this reason BAW advan...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

WINDOWS AUTHENTICATION support on LINUX REDHAT OS for BAW Advanced software

The current BAW advanced software doesn't support WINDOWS AUTHENTICATION on LINUX REDHAT servers to backend SQL Server on windows. This idea is raised to implement the WINDOWS AUTHENTICATION functionality to support on LINUX REDHAT OS to windows OS.
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 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 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add support for Azure SQL Server Management Instance for IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW)

IBM BAW currently does not support Azure SQL Server Management Instance. Customers that are currently migrating to Azure containers (AKS) or VMs are keen to use Azure SQL Server Management Instance - managed service - to avoid self-managed Microso...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allowing Custom Cache Expiry Settings for CMIS in BAW

Currently, the cache timeout for CMIS object type hierarchies in IBM BAW is hardcoded (1 hour in internal CMIS). This leads to significant delays (3.5–4 minutes) when the cache expires and is regenerated—especially in solutions with a large number...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Eliminate tablespace information for postgres in BAW on Containers

Customer: Discover Financial Services Product: Business Automation Workflow on Containers version : 22.x onwards DFS is using RDS Postgres Operator on AWS so we are not using the traditional postgres version, Cleanup is needed to keep required val...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration