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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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Possibility to reassign claimed tasks for Team members, not only managers

Actually only team managers are able to reassign tasks that are allready claimed.Team members should be able to reassign tasks belongs to their teams, without having extensive manager rights.This should be also work for dynamic adhoc teams (create...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

When trying to add an extra column, if the exposed variables are exposed in different process, then the way it shows in workplace has too much data.

It works 'as designed' but that does not necessarily mean it is best for user experience. BAW User is using CP4A with the case feature. Their case type has multiple activities, each activity has at least one human service task. It has an exposed b...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

It is recommended to set the default "document class" when uploading through "document Explorer"

When uploading documents in case activities (BPM), users need to select "document class", which is inconvenient. In particular, if the user does not select the correct "document class", the subsequent process will fail to achieve the expected goal...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Planned for future release

Role Process Application Administrators should be able to access environment variables of their process application in Process Admin Console

At VKB we are currently discussing the use of the role „Process Application Administrators“. Our understanding about such a role is different to how it is implemented in BAW. Users in the role „Process Application Administrators“ have the appropri...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support for IIS using WebSphere Plugin for BAW Product

The BAW server and the ICN/ICM Server are configured to run all services using the WebSphere Plugins through IIS. This configuration doesnt work and we receive below errors: [6/20/22 13:31:28:025 EDT] 000000ed SystemOut O CIWEB.ICMAPIPlugin Error...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Disable process status summary for non tw_admins users

In production, our Developers or other users are not part of tw_admins. However, they are still able to see all the Process Apps in the Process Status Summary Page. We would like to have a way to disable the visibility of all process applications ...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Localization of instance and process names

Customers develop Japanese and English applications for end users, referring to this document.https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/baw/20.x?topic=interfaces-localizing-process-applications Developers basically use Japanese when developing ProcessApp on the...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Multiple endpoints should be allowed to connect to same next step in Parent service like eclipse Process designer

We have hundreds of toolkits and PA in environment where sometime multi end points in some common toolkits services need to connect to same next step in parent(implementor) service. This is valid business case for many Authors and common toolkits....
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

WebPD compatibility with Internet Explorer 11

After updating the BAW from 20.0.0.1 To 21.0.3.1, WebPD URLs are not opening in IE. We have opened a cases TS016251380, TS016277223 and TS016924100 and IBM suggested to use Modern Browser. When Application teams are using modern browsers, they are...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

IBM BAW to support DB schema name changes, as the current system only supports schema names matching the original, impacting our necessary DB refresh practice.

We are experiencing an issue with IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) related to the DB schema reference. Despite updating the database credentials in the WebSphere Application Server (WAS) console to the new username PRODICNDB, the system cont...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration