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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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Enable additional trace for ProcessAdmin EPV, Environment Varaiable for manual edits

We are using Business Automation Workflow 21.0.3 running on linux flavor, Application team listed the below concern to handle in BAW product. ibm should add more logger information so that if someone making a change in the processAdmin--> deplo...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Can we compare two snapshot in Process Designer to check the details level of code

We would like to know if there is any way to compare two snapshots to understand the exact code changes to the lowest level.As far as we know, we can compare only the documentation but nothing else. If there is no way , please let us know if you h...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support automatic retries for service invocations

Support automatic retries for service invocations. Services can be temporarily unavailable or they can timeout (for a variety of reasons). It would be helpful to be able to configure n number of automatic retries for a service in a service flow in...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add Task instance and Process instance REST APIs to the Operations APIs

Currently https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=update-put and https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=instance-put-setdata are not available as Operations APIs here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=apis-operations-rest-reference...
9 months 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...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Directly Support OAuth when invoking a REST service

Currently to use OAuth when invoking a REST service, you must use JavaScript as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/23.x?topic=service-invoking-rest It would be very useful to have OAuth directly supported like basic auth and API Key ...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Use GIT or Artifactory for Process Snapshots instead of Workflow Center

Use GIT or Artifactory for Process Snapshots instead of Workflow Center
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support JSON-to-XML and XML-to-JSON conversions directly in BAW (without the need to import a 3rd party library)

Support JSON-to-XML and XML-to-JSON conversions directly in BAW (without the need to import a 3rd party library)
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Request to support multiple upload documents in BAW

Our business have a requirement on multiple upload documents in BAW like the screenshot show in attachment, they need to select multiple documents in one go to improve their operation performance. this will be great helpful for their daily work.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Not under consideration

BPM ENvironment Dashboard

We would like to see a Dashboard that shows how our environment is performing over the month/6 months etc. CPU utilization, Calls per hours, Peak Load times etc. This is going to be of immense help as we plan on bringing in more users/use cases to...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration