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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CHDBPrune tool to support Case State property

Currently, CHDBPrune tool only take string value. An OOTB Case State provided by Case Manager is using integer instead of string. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/case-manager/5.3.3?topic=comibmcasemgmtapiconstants-casestate It would be great if CHDBPr...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Rename of variables in web pd

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

Delete Snapshots and Orphan Toolkits

Too many steps necessary to do housekeeping and managing the complex BPM applications that Commerzbank is deploying e.g. to delete a snapshot you first have to fire a REST call to get all snapshot names from the application... then you have to che...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Conversion tool for Heritage Human Services in BPM

Many long-time customers have large numbers of heritage artifacts, such as Heritage Human Services. There is no tool available to convert Heritage Human Services to a CSHS with the SPARK toolkit; you would have to recreate the entire UI by hand. A...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

IBM BPM should support int64 format

In order to integrate with modern services (Blockchain/Hyperledger and a number of Watson services) using e.g. REST Outbound, IBM BPM should be able to support the int64 format for integer. This is an official Swagger format according to the Swagg...
almost 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Planned for future release

Case supports "forms"

https://www.ibm.com/docs/zh/baw/22.x?topic=widgets-form-widget describes that forms are not supported, which affects the use of users, and it is hoped that this function will be supported in the OCP environment.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

BPM User and Team Reassignment and Attribute Enhancement

BPM very commonly requires complex user management and routing patterns. One of the most common is implementing a user attribute to be used with a Team Filter Service in order to provide complex assignment patterns for tasks within BPDs. These att...
about 9 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

IBM BAW - Providing a Process Portal search index command to re-index only active process instances and open tasks

providing a Process Portal search index command to re-index only active process instances and open tasks in IBM Business Automation Workflow
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 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...
over 3 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...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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