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).


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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:

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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,

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  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

WfPS should emit to BAI in a different namespace (also applies to other Workflow capabilities)

We run various flavors of CP4BA workflow capabilities (WfPS Server, BAW Runtime), which are deployed into different namespaces on the same cluster for maintainability. We attempt to consolidate the events into one Business Automation Insights - BP...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Installing or upgrading Business automation workflow to not require workarounds in scenarios of limited network connectivity

We would like to be able to install/upgrade our Business automation workflow taking without having to take additional actions given we've got limited network connectivity. We had to follow the procedure documented in this technote to workaround ou...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Cloudpak wfpsruntime pod doesn't print postgres DB endpoint in the liberty logs

Our application, CloudPak WFPS, connects to a Postgres HADR database, but the database endpoint is not appearing in the logs. This makes it difficult to confirm whether the WFPSRuntime pods have successfully connected to the Postgres database. In ...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

We want to run Business Automation workflow with Postgresql17

PGSQL17 is the latest and greatest and most optimal to run the latest version of BAW with the latest version of Postgresql, Postgresql17, is this on the roadmap?
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

BAW CI/CD support to other Git hosts (e.g., Bitbucket and GitLab)

product support for BAW CI/CD support to other Git hosts (e.g., Bitbucket and GitLab)
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Adding mail attribute of LDAP in LSW_USR_XREF table

Why is it useful? We are currently working on workflow implementation for Qatar’s largest bank, which has more than 475 processes running in the production environment and a substantial number of new instances being created daily. The daily task v...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

add 'Current Date' within saved search filter

In both Process Portal saved searches and Workplace reusable searches, the current 'Due Date' filter only supports a calendar-based selection, requiring users to choose a specific date. However, the client needs to have saved search that shows end...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

We would like to integrate Business automation workflow with co-pilot

Integration of BAW with co-pilot would allow coding to be much quicker
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Restrict Developer(Users) in tw_authors from seeing all users when trying to re-assign the task in inspector

The Developer can now see "all" users in the dropdown when trying to re-assign the task in inspector. On on-prem he only sees the users that is part of the team. Initially user cannot see members but when we change the settingsset that to false fo...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Add LSW_TASK.READ_DATETIME attribute to TWTask JS API

I have a customer requirement to capture the date/time a task was claimed, but it appears that the only way to obtain this data is from the READ_DATETIME column in the LSW_TASK table - it is not exposed via the TWTask JS API. It would be very help...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

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