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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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Snapshot Pattern Selector in IBM BPM/BAW Process Designer

ProblemCurrently, when creating snapshots in IBM BAW, users manually enter snapshot names. This can lead to:- Inconsistent naming conventions- Difficulty in tracking versions- Errors in deployment pipelines Proposed SolutionIntroduce a Snapshot Pa...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide a way inside case builder or in the backend to copy a case activity and its underlying process

We would like to copy the sub activity of a case Type and create a new sub activity with different name to it.
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

AI Code Assistant Integration for IBM BAW

Enable integration of AI-powered code assistants within IBM Business Automation Workflow to support users in supporting, refining, and understanding code across the platform. Similar to capabilities found in modern IDEs, this assistant would provi...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Allow a parameter to the Bulk Instance Details REST API method to only bring back the executionTree

We have situations where we need to move the token. The only place to get the token ids (that we have found) is the Bulk Instance Details method in the REST API. It brings back everything. We would like to have an option for the parts parameter to...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Add property within the Deployment Environment configuraion properties file to disable data sources

When migrating exisiting configuration to new machines some DB's might needed to be blocked . In our case we have created a duplicate test environemnt for our BAW version so we needed some DB's data sources to be blocked.
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Needs more information

Request for decimals to be displayed with trailing decimal value in Workplace / Process Portal

The main issue is that in the Process Portal in the Table View when user has some columns which are decimals, then the values which are round (e.g. 100, 1000, 80, etc.) are display without trailing decimal value, while the ones which have trailing...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enable the configuration of global libraries/shared libraries (java) (Ref case TS018621875)

Context: We are migrating from twas BAW 23.0.2 to latest CP4BA version. In our BAW process applications we use external services extensively. Mostly to integrate with in-house rest/soap services. These external services(java code) all read propert...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Integrate Absence Management Features into IBM BAW

In complex and long running processes implemented with IBM BAW where many different workers are involved in activities a way of managing absence of workers and specific named substitutes for taking over the ongoing activities is needed. IBM BAW un...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Support for Self-Hosting Carbon Design Fonts in Process Admin console UI to Enable Air-Gapped or Restricted Environments

The downloading of the CSS fonts is documented in recent versions of BAW. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/24.0.x?topic=servers-accessing-process-admin-console Note: It is expected that when you access the Process Admin Console, it downloads the CS...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

We need a password type for environmental variables

We would like a password type that obfuscates the password value for environmental variables. We have several services that we call with basic auth with a system user. Developers are not allowed to know production passwords. This means that we hav...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted