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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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Custom Header Propagation and Exposure in BAW

The requirement here is for BAW to propagate custom headers that are used to invoke a process/service flow throughout the entire process/server flow. Those custom headers may contain values such as an application correlation ID. The custom header ...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add the user role as an input to the service cache

the current caching mechanism in BAW is not designed to take the user's roles into account when serving cached data. The caching mechanism uses only the service's input data as index for cached data. Our business requires the caching mechanism to ...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Show number of open tasks per saved search/dashboard on overview in Process Portal

Users need to know which saved search has open tasks for them to do without having to select that search, to know if there's anything to do.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Provide App snapshot name in Process Admin

I would like to see the snapshot acronyms of process apps in the list of Apps in the Process Admin - Installed App tab just next to the App acronyms.
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Case Builder to delete solution properties from runtime configuration

Currently when a solution designer deletes a solution property in Case Builder, the property is only deleted from the solution definition. The property stays available in the runtime data. This behavior is not intuitive for developers and business...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Tracking groups do not support complex BOs

Tracking groups currently only support simple variables. They need to support complex BOs as mapping each field individually for a large tracking group is painful and cumbersome.
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Remove comments from client side browser code (BPMExt-Control-BPMFileList.js)

Security concerns regarding comments in BPMExt-Control-BPMFileList.js which contains CMIS queries. Suggestion is to remove comments from browser side code.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Dynamic size of comment box in Stream section

Users enter comments in Stream section while working on process instance task. There are circumstances where they have to type long comments and due to fixed size of the field, the whole comment line is not visible to the user unless it is posted....
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Update BAW swidtags with each version release

IBM only updates the SWIDTAG version for certain major versions which makes software discovery for vendors such as BigFix impossible to be able to report accurately on currently installed software. Discovery issues within BAW could be fixed with p...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

We want incremental purging and archival of process instances and associated data including documents into a separate environment for future reference.

We want to have incremental (online) backup of our processes which are purged and then stored into a separate archival environment (same database table structure as primary BAW environment). We are already aware of scripts that can be scheduled to...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration