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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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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

Kerberos support for XA Recovery transactions using MSSQL datasource on BPM/WAS

The product currently provides the capability to use Kerberos Authentication for an MSSQL datasource. We have tested the MSSQL Datasource Kerberos connectivity. However, in case of a transaction failure, there is no XARecovery support using Kerber...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

BAW BPM - ECM Uploader component - Create unfiled document

Currently the component ECM Uploader only supports (works as design) for filed documents (folder or root folder), the idea is to expand the feature to allow in the configuration to create unfiled documents since it is supported by FileNet and CMIS...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Business Automation Workflow should support Multi-value property templates of type unique

We are facing issue with the multi value property allowing duplicate values for multi value property in case client screen. We would like to have a property to provide values with unique and ordered as list in case client screen. PFA of case clien...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future 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...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Retain column width and sorting changes on Process Portal

Our business representatives have requested to have Process Portal retain latest changes to column widths and sorting on saved searches, on a per-user basis. The inability to do this causes steps to be repeated frequently and is frustrating to the...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future 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.
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Functionality already exists

Localization of instance and process names

Customers develop Japanese and English applications for end users, referring to this document.https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/baw/20.x?topic=interfaces-localizing-process-applications Developers basically use Japanese when developing ProcessApp on the...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration