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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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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

All Warning and Errors in WebPD section

All errors and warning from BPM artifacts should be displayed in Warnings and Errors section of the Web PD. Now only a subset is displayed and multiple types of errors are missing e.g. errors in javascript editors of Views event handlers, warning ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BAW REST API JSON response date-time format

I cannot specify PMR because it does not accept Case format in the RFE form, can it be fixed btw? :), the Case for this is TS003220320 All the details are in the Case in question but for this particular RFE we'd like for all BAW REST APIs to be ab...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Dashboard Display Order - reset after snapshot deploy

Make Dashboard Display Order independent from the application snapshot, see https://developer.ibm.com/recipes/tutorials/defaulting-custom-dashboards-in-ibm-bpm-process-portal/
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Docker support

Docker support for BPM-AdvancedOnly (to run SCA modules).
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under 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...
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Getting process instances from production to a test environment

We would like to copy process instance and data from one environment to another. * Extract process instances for a given process from source environment (PS1)* Get that process instances into a target environment (PS2), with the same version of th...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Combining Purging procedures in IBM Business Automation Workflow for Indexing & Instances

IBM Business Automation Workflow Customer requirement is to combining the BPMProcessInstancesPurge command and the indexTablesCleanup command into one operation to avoid two steps and eliminate downtime
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration