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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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Allow flow approvals over email

The customer is using BAW for multiple tasks in their environment. The actors (approver) in the flow gets email notification when a task is waiting for their action. The actor then has to use the process portal to act on the TODO list. The custome...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide user-centric API which can show "direct" memberships to BPM "groups"

We want to be able to provision some new users who will have the same authority and visibility as some existing users.We are currently relying on a SQL query provided by our IBM Support Engineer, and are aware this isn't a "supported" technique be...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to migrate dynamic teams from one snapshot to another

The migration of process instances and tasks will not transfer teams or manager teams to a new snapshot context when a team filter service is used. The teams associated with a task that utilizes a team filter service will block the deletion of the...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enable Rediscovery of REST APIs in IBM BAW with the ability to reuse existing Business Objects (BOs) even when the OpenAPI YAML/JSON files are located in different paths.

Currently IBM BAW doesn’t permit to rediscover a REST API service and if something changes the only option available is the discovery of a new REST API service. The discovery of a new REST API Service, even if it can be bound on the same server di...
4 months 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...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 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
25 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Order BAW Process Admin EPV variables alphabetically.

Ordering BAW Process Admin EPV variables alphabetically will add to ease of maintenance and verifying values quicker.
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enhance - Ability to have environment variables per baw server instance scoped

Possible environment variables baw server instance scoped instead of application-scoped, to allow for easier update of external services and others (endpoints, users, password, etc.) If the customer has more than 300 process apps which have a few ...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Create button for group sync

As today we have a button on the UI for users sync but need to access swagger and run the group sync through api. It would be easier and intuitive to have this api displayed as buttons on the UI.
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 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...
30 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration