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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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Add property within the Deployment Environment configuraion properties file to disable data sources

When migrating exisiting configuration to new machines some DB's might needed to be blocked . In our case we have created a duplicate test environemnt for our BAW version so we needed some DB's data sources to be blocked.
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Needs more information

Allowing Custom Cache Expiry Settings for CMIS in BAW

Currently, the cache timeout for CMIS object type hierarchies in IBM BAW is hardcoded (1 hour in internal CMIS). This leads to significant delays (3.5–4 minutes) when the cache expires and is regenerated—especially in solutions with a large number...
12 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Revert input/output variable mapping to classic view to remove extra steps

Users are facing challenges with BAW 23.0.1's new variable mapping process, finding it cumbersome due to extra clicks and complexity, especially in complex projects. The classic mapping offered quicker, more straightforward access to variable usag...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 7 Planned for future release

The BPMDeleteDurableMessages command should allow users to specify messages that have been consumed, not just a date range as it exists currently

As it stands the BPMDeleteDurableMessages command only allows you to specify a date cut-off for deleting durable messages. It should also give you the option to specify that you only wish to delete consumed messages. Right now there is no mechanis...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Filenet PE PCC Configuration Changes Reverting After IBM BAW Solution Deployment

Subject: PCC Configuration Changes Reverting After IBM BAW Solution Deployment Description: After each deployment of our IBM BAW solution, we observe that the changes made in PCC (for example, filter changes like TPA_A, TPA_B, etc.) are reverted t...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Prevent Users from Modifying CMIS Queries in ECM Document List in IBM BAW

The ECM Document List component in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) dynamically generates CMIS queries to retrieve authorized case documents from IBM Content Platform Engine (CPE). However, penetration testing has revealed that users can int...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Under review

Support updating managed files via API call

We should be able to update managed files with an API call even if it is only restricted for use by admins. The only option is to update a managed file without deploying an app is with the command BPMUpdateFile, but I was told this is not supporte...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enhance - Ability to have environment variables per baw server instance scoped

Possible environment variables baw server instance scoped instead of application-scoped, to allow for easier update of external services and others (endpoints, users, password, etc.) If the customer has more than 300 process apps which have a few ...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Predefined nested sorting for inbasket

Load the inbaskets with pre defined nested sorting (More than 1 field) Allow users / admins to change the fields based on needs. Persist the nested sort after the filter
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Server-Side Validation for Read-Only Case Properties

The read-only setting for case properties in the Case client UI (runtime) is applied only at the view level and does not enforce restrictions at the backend Case Manager REST API level. The CaseManager API and CaseClient plugin service are designe...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Functionality already exists