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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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Adding mail attribute of LDAP in LSW_USR_XREF table

Why is it useful? We are currently working on workflow implementation for Qatar’s largest bank, which has more than 475 processes running in the production environment and a substantial number of new instances being created daily. The daily task v...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

WfPS should emit to BAI in a different namespace (also applies to other Workflow capabilities)

We run various flavors of CP4BA workflow capabilities (WfPS Server, BAW Runtime), which are deployed into different namespaces on the same cluster for maintainability. We attempt to consolidate the events into one Business Automation Insights - BP...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Remove the case-sensitivity check when an instance is launched in PFS Process Portal

As worked on case TS013115945, when a user is updated in LDAP from lower to uppercase of vice-versa, PFS and BAW does not update the user as expected since it checks the full path with no case-sensitivity… if it matches the exact same path, it’s s...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Bookmark case in Case Manager

Certain business users open multiple cases at a time e.g. 7-8 cases. If a session is idle for certain time, business losses all the cases they had opened earlier and need to all the cases again. Is there a way they can bookmark a case so that they...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Restrict Developer(Users) in tw_authors from seeing all users when trying to re-assign the task in inspector

The Developer can now see "all" users in the dropdown when trying to re-assign the task in inspector. On on-prem he only sees the users that is part of the team. Initially user cannot see members but when we change the settingsset that to false fo...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Order BAW Process Admin EPV variables alphabetically.

Ordering BAW Process Admin EPV variables alphabetically will add to ease of maintenance and verifying values quicker.
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Create button for group sync

As today we have a button on the UI for users sync but need to access swagger and run the group sync through api. It would be easier and intuitive to have this api displayed as buttons on the UI.
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Future consideration

Enable Rediscovery of REST APIs in IBM BAW with the ability to reuse existing Business Objects (BOs) even when the OpenAPI YAML/JSON files are located in different paths.

Currently IBM BAW doesn’t permit to rediscover a REST API service and if something changes the only option available is the discovery of a new REST API service. The discovery of a new REST API Service, even if it can be bound on the same server di...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improve Team filters: dynamic recalc and manage members

Team filters currently calculate a set of members once, then store it in an ad-hoc group which is static and inaccessible to the developer. Team filters should allow (optional) dynamic re-calculation of their members, so that changes in the user p...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Limit the size of BPM error objects for SOAP faults

When web service calls are made by BPM applications, the service providers may reply by passing back SOAP faults to indicate error conditions. These SOAP faults are transformed by BPM into tw.systems.error objects which thereby carry the informati...
almost 8 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration