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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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BAW to support MS SQL Always On Availability feature

BAW to support the MS SQL Always On Availability. this is critical functionality with benefits for High Availability and in replicating environments to the DR site.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Need to have Multi Factor Authentication in BPM

In BPM, we need multi factor authentication for improved security as a part of compliance
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Upgrade to MS SQL 2022 Compatibility Level to 2016 while on IBM P8 BAW 21.0.3.x before upgrading to BAW 24.0.x

Customers need to update their MS SQL Server environment to 2022 ASAP and request that they run it in SQL Server Compatibility Level 2016, which the customer is presently on (SQL Server 2016 SP2) before they upgrade to BAW 24.0.x on new hardware.
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Column naming visualization

Hello, After moving to IBAW, if column width is smaller then column name, name is shortened and "..." is put at its end. In previous version if column width was too small, column name was moved to the next line. If possible, we want to have old va...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Log a Xpath of impacted transformation files

At the moment both BPM and BAW logs only impact transaction file (xsl or custom xsl ) but that is very challenging and time-consuming task to narrow down a root cause, so it would be great if new feature can be added to log failure xpath and impac...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Allow to connect Integration Designer to Workflow sever for UTE

As current Integration Designer 23.02 has 2 related vulnerabilities and client systems are not allowing to install complete IID UTE version due to security restriction, it would be helpful if IID allows to connect remote Runtime BAW (workflow server)
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Unit testing in Process/Workflow Center

Unit testing of individual services/components. The current approach to unit testing services is to create a test harness service for each service to be unit tested. This bloats the code base when installation package is created and deployed to Pr...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

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-...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under 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...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

optimize the blank pages as loading page in BPM Process Portal

As discussed, we have closed the case no TS001047503 and came for RFE on optimizing the blank pages as loading page in BPM Process Portal.
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration