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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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Migrate to new hardware and upgrade as one step

I want to be able to migrate to new hardware and upgrade as an integrated step. This would allow me to install 22.0.2, copy over a 19.0.0.3 database, run DBUpgrade on it, and have Workflow run the needed profile upgrade, bootstrap, and update syst...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Bulk cleanup of task and process instances

There are some cases in which task and process instances are created and left abandoned.It can then be visually completed and deleted using Process Inspector.It is also possible to complete and delete them using the REST API below. /rest/bpm/wle/v...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Functionality already exists

Migration of completed instances of older snapshots to the latest active snapshot

Minor fixes may be made and the latest snapshot installed on the Workflow Server.The old snapshot should be deleted from the housekeeping perspective, but it is not possible to migrate instances that have already been completed in the old snapshot...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The user who terminates a running BPM Instance is not captured

When a valid logged in the Process Inspector terminates a running process that has active ready user tasks waiting on another Assignee, it terminates the process and closes the task. But it appears that the assigned user worked on the task while n...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Writing or generating PDF and Excel files

In many kinds of organizations, customers need to download some business data as a file (pdf, excel, and etc.). But our IBM BAW does not have any out-of-the-box feature to achieve this basic frequent requirement. IBM confirmed it in TS008160848. I...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

An environment that only has ICN configured with Kerberos SSO, while everything is not configured with Kerberos SSO.

This will be useful for customer that wants to have an environment where ICN to be configured with Kerberos SSO and other products like BAW and CPE can be configured with other authentication methods such as basic authentication.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Changeable export data encoding

Customer is using “Data export” in the UI toolkit.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=toolkit-data-export They use this to export table data as csv. They want to change the character encoding of the output csv. As far as I look into, the da...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Limitation on sorting activities in-baskets

Currently there is a limit on the number process instances/activities in a Navigator in-basket for column sorting of 200 items. We are using a BAW Case Solution with BPM workflows. Because of the way the in-basket is implemented, displaying proces...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Update Language in Federated Cells when user changes in Master Cell in Responsive Portal

The Responsive Portal when is working in Federation Mode has limitations when the user changes the language in Profile. The Language is updated in Cell where is running the Responsive Portal but doesn't update all cell federated, this creates a ba...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Rename of variables in web pd

Allow the renaming of variables over the whole process app in the web pd. Including scripts.
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration