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

To Have a BPM REST API that gets the environment variables from a Toolkit

2. Feature Design of Get REST API https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/25.0.0?topic=variables-get to get the environment variable from a Toolkit using the following Get request: GET /rest/bpm/wle/v1/system/env/variable?processA...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Modify the Task Details section of Process Portal to refresh without re-rendering.

This issue arises when using a Process Portal that is configured as the host federated portal. When that is the case, the Process Portal no longer relies on CometD for web messaging and instead refreshes at regular intervals, configured by the fed...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Add a way to see which artifact where modified between two Snapshots

A client is collaborating with a larger team to migrate processes from their previous systems to BAW. As the amount of process to migrate is important, multiple developers are working in parallel, and also modifying the same toolkits/process apps ...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Enable automatic opening of the next user task within the same process instance in Case Client / Navigator, so that users can continue working without returning to the in-basket and manually claiming the next task.

In Business Automation Workflow, when a user completes a task in Case Client (Navigator), they are redirected back to the in-basket and must manually locate and claim the next task, even when that task belongs to the same process instance and is i...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

IDOR Vulnerability

VAPT found a vulnerability that BPM session tokens of a user are not invalidated on logout. When another user logs in on the machine, and copies the session token of the previous user, they are able to re-use the FileNet URLs to access the documen...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

When Case feature is the default feature for a desktop, 'Folder Filed In' document property should still be displayed in ICN browse feature.

This functionality is important for identifying documents that are not properly filed within the parent folder. Given that the workflow can be unpredictable at times, it provides a quick way for teams to locate and resolve document issues without ...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Support Export and Import of Individual Artifacts in BAW

IBM BAW currently provides export/import capabilities at the Process Application and Toolkit level. However, there are many situations where developers only need to share or move a single artifact, such as: Client-Side Human Service (CSHS) Service...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

When opening the dashboard list via the Workplace app switcher, users cannot search, scroll, or view all available dashboards. Only a fixed, truncated list is shown with no indication that more exist.

When accessing the list of available dashboards via the app switcher (grid icon) in Workplace, it is not possible to search for a dashboard by name, nor to scroll through or confirm the full list of available dashboards. Only a limited, fixed numb...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Provide Daeja View Toolkit for BAW

We use Daeja View embedded into BAW using a toolkit originally created by an IBM employee (https://us-south.git.cloud.ibm.com/schwarzs/bpm-ui-Daeja.Document.Viewer/-/tree/master). This toolkit is very useful but is now showing it's age as BAW has ...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Provide native support to calculate and report historical Business Turnaround Time (Business TAT) for completed BPMN tasks using configured Work Schedules and Holiday Schedules

The customer requires the ability to calculate the Business Turnaround Time (Business TAT) for both historical and future BPMN tasks. Business TAT represents the elapsed working time between task lifecycle events (for example, task creation/claim ...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

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