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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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External webservice Call with ANY is not supported

As part of migration from BPM 8.6 to BAW 21.0.3, imported the latest twx file (production deployed twx file) into the newly set up BAW 21.0.3 environment. After successful importing, converted all components under BPD, UI AND Service Conversions. ...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Develop Visual Diagram API rest for CoachFlow

There are Visual Model API for Human Service, SCA Service, Integration Service, Rule Service and General System Service BUT : there isn't API for CoachFlow I'd like ask for this implementation, for Process Automating Documentation. Our IBM BPM pro...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Organization hierarchy for Managers Team in BPM

For current Team Filter Service and Team Retrieve Service, we cannot filter team members for managers team. For example, I want the staff's line manager to be in managers team, the staff is defined at runtime, so the managers team member decided b...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support local group membership on IBM BAW Workflow Case administration

The new feature(P8 v5.5.7) allows defining a security group within the P8 domain instead of defining it in an LDAP directory service Feature Overiew https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/filenet-p8-platform/5.5.x?topic=v557-whats-new-administrators St...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add bulk task reassign in the portal

The BPM currently allows the reassignment of a single task, but is lacking a bulk task reassign. Customers wanting to reassign multiple tasks.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add Start Date to TWSearchColumn.ProcessInstanceColumns

We have found that we often want to build TWSearches using instance start date as a value. Current state: We need to either expose a start date variable, or use a REST call to get the start date (not very efficient). Having startDate added to the ...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add support for consuming REST service with INT64 field

currently when consuming a REST service if it contains an INT64 field. the field cannot be used according to the following documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/19.x?topic=service-limitations-invoking-rest We ask to enalbe consuming a RES...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Can we hide/show tabs dynamically from Tabs section control?

Hi TeamWe have a requirement to hide/show tabs based on some condition given from tabs section control in IBM BPM. So we need to show or hide tab dynamically based on some condition given. Ex: We have take tab section and we have tab1,tab 2,tab 3 ...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Functionality already exists

Show number of open tasks per saved search/dashboard on overview in Process Portal

Users need to know which saved search has open tasks for them to do without having to select that search, to know if there's anything to do.
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Dynamic size of comment box in Stream section

Users enter comments in Stream section while working on process instance task. There are circumstances where they have to type long comments and due to fixed size of the field, the whole comment line is not visible to the user unless it is posted....
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration