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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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Support for additonal databases ( like MariaDB and MySQL) with Business Automation Workflow

We request the addition of support for MariaDB and MySQL as official database options for IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW).
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

WebPD: Ability to debug instances running on Inactive snapshot

In an online/connected workflow server environments, Desktop PD has the ability to debug instances running in Active and Inactive snapshots. However with the Web PD, we only have the ability to debug the instances running on the Active snapshot. C...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Opening a process instance cases should be redirected to a near other case instead of a new tab.

Customer was looking for a possibility to open related process instance cases in the same browser tab, instead of separate ones.
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Needs more information

Link to Case: documents(FileNet/CMOD) attached to case must have On Hold symbol/icon

Currently it is confusing if attached/Link documents are not having On Hold symbol. Client as Well IBM will benefit. When user link FileNet/CMOD documents to the case, that documents must show the On Hold icon/symbol against each document. Current...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 8 Not under consideration

AI-Powered Process Optimization

Integrate AI and machine learning algorithms to analyze process data and suggest optimizations. This could help in identifying bottlenecks, predicting outcomes, and recommending improvements.
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Field Validation required enhancement on Plain-Text contro

Plain text display error even after correcting the value with valid data. Scenario: If a text field already has a pre-populated value. The user clicks on the text field and enters an invalid input that does not match the defined regular expression...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Is a defect

Provide a new tool for Building, Creating and maintaining the Custom Query table

We have several BPEL Processes in which we implemented the standard functionality of the query tables. We always used the procedure described in the documentation of the IBM Business Automation Workflow and before for BPM and WPS: Creating query t...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Submitted

For Document Explorer: Allow a developer to filter which document classes, display name and properties appear when a user clicks add document. Much like using an Entry Template with FileNet and Content Navigator

Allows for better customization for case solutions and only presents the information necessary for the case type being worked.
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IID 21.0.3 Support of Windows11

We would like to use IBM Integration Designer 21.0.3 in Windows 11 environment.However, No mention of Windows11 in the following article. https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity-reports/report/html/softwareReqsForProduct?deliver...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Customize and add new assigned task email templates

•How to modify existing templates externalmailprocesslink_{0}.html and externalmailnoprocess_{0}.html •How can I provide a custom once to be used as templates? Custom styling, corporate design, custom order of data, logos, ... •What are the data a...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration