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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    Instance dates in PFS Portal

    If you want to migrate Saved Searches from BAW to PFS and the SS uses date fields from instance, you cannot migrate the saved searches. Some of the fields that are usable out of the box in BAW saved searches are not usable as is in PFS saved searc...
    over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

    Allow for a copy between branches to preserve object IDs in WebPD

    If you are copying assets between branches/tracks when you use the default copy in WebPD it will automatically generate new PO IDs. This will cause dependencies to break if you are using a toolkit and for instance migration to encounter problems d...
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    The functionality of bookmarking dashboards is not useful if new snapshots are installed

    When a Dashboard is marked as a favorite in the ProcessPortal for a user, if at any time a new snapshot is installed and the previous version is deactivated, the favorite disappears.
    about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Extend migration policy to support move token without token orphanization and restarting of tasks

    When defining a migration policy, it should also support move token for steps that arent orphaned, to support rerunning added steps prior to the current task. The migration policy should also support restarting of tasks, that currenty would crash ...
    about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Increase the Case Manager in-basket filter to more than 200

    The number of work items that are contained in an in-basket is displayed on the tab next to the in-basket name. The default paging size is 200 and is not configurable, as an IBM Content Navigator implementation. technote: In-baskets - IBM Document...
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

    Request support for Oracle 23ai database for Business Automation Workflow

    Business Automation Workflow does not currently support Oracle 23ai. This is important to customers currently on Oracle 19c, which will reach end of life in April 2026.
    about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

    Possibility of deactivation BPMCSRF Token for REST API V2 calls

    Since we will be connecting an application frontend to the BPM REST API V2 and, according to the system target architecture, all calls should go through our API Gateway we need to establish a connection to the BPM REST API V2 through the gateway. ...
    about 4 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...
    almost 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

    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...
    almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future 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...
    about 9 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Planned for future release

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