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).


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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:

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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,

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  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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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

External webservice Call with ANY is not supported

As part of migration from BPM 8.6 to BAW 21.0.3, imported the latest twx file (production deployed twx file) into the newly set up BAW 21.0.3 environment. After successful importing, converted all components under BPD, UI AND Service Conversions. ...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

IBM BPM Teams Enhancement

IBM BPM 'Teams' cannot be shared easily across multiple process applications unlike groups (which got deprecated ~IBM BPM v8.0 timeline. These Teams unlike groups , are tied to snapshots and have unique db record for each snapshot they are belong ...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Cancel changes in Workflow Center Solutions

Currently, when opening an existing solution in Workflow Center, there is no option to exit out of the solution to release it, or to cancel any changes (on purpose or inadvertent) made by the developer that should not be saved or deployed. Just li...
8 months 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.
about 2 years 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...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

IBM Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) should be supported with IBM Case Manager (ICM) and Business Automation Workflow (BAW)

This is useful because customer would want to have an option that is different from using FileNet as a document repository. Customers will benefit from this idea by integrating CMOD with BAW to captures and stores documents.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Make terminated instances recoverable

When a process instance is terminated it is not possible to recover the instance. This means that if an instance is terminated by accident it takes complex manual intervention to recover. If the number of instances terminated is large the task bec...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow "Instance owners" team for a BPD to be changed like the other "Expose to" teams for a BPD, for example via the Admin console.

Currently, the "Instance owners" team that can be defined on a BPD can only be changed through a snapshot deployment. Other teams that the BPD is exposed to, like process starters, can be changed via the Admin Console. Please add the "Instance own...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow passing in null value for Integer and Decimal Input Variables in Client Side Human Services

Client-Side Human Services (CSHS) currently initialize integer and decimal variable types to 0 for Input and Private variables that are undefined or null. This is different behavior from Heritage Human Services (HHS) which does not do this. Also S...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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