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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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Audit Trail for Process Portal and Workplace dashboards

Include audit trail for users actions on Process Portal and Workplace dashboards on BAW container and VM version. Those actions include update due date, priority, reassignment, for reassignment, both assigner and assignee info need to capture
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Debug Breakpoints for Service Flows

When debugging a Service Flow, there is no way to set a breakpoint. For large complex flows, this means you need to go through potentially hundreds of steps to get to where you need to be, which can take a huge amount of time! Like any good develo...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Process instance migration when moving from traditional to container

IBM has a tool to migrate instances when it is traditional to traditional.The idea is a similar tool, however, to a different platform. Tool must perform a process instance migration from traditional to container platform.
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Delivered

BAW support for RHEL 8

Test and ensure support for BAW on RHEL 8
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Scripts to create SIB messaging tables should be delivered to create UTS tablespaces and not Segmented.

There are some DB2 for z/OS tablespaces created as part of BPM installation/customization that are used to store data from tables that belong to the SIB messaging engine. The script that is delivered to create those tablespaces should include opti...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

log4j 1.x jar's end of support dates passed. Move jar versions to 2.15 and above

When working with recently vulnerabilities(CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-4104) on log4j jars, identified BAW product uses older version 1.x jars and these are passed end of support dates. Wells Fargo has a corporate directive to mitigate the CVE(CVE-20...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Support case instances migration

Currently BPM does not support the migration of case instances. I would like to have the possibility to migrate the case instances. This is a very important feature.
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Avoid extra clic for end users by choosing LDAP or SAML

When connecting with SSO avoid for end user extra clic for choosing the correct method to connect when the method is known
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

Enhancement to replace pivot table solution

BAW acceleration tool uses the pivot tables to improve the search performance, but this solution is not so perfect, refer to below. 1. BAW is a shared environment, all the process apps' data are store in pivots tables 2. as every process flow ha...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

BAW backward-compatibility issue of v21.0.3 (Case Management Function) for BAW v22.0.2 container platform in Cloud

Hi BAW product team, Our customer is performing the function test on BAW v22.0.2. They deploy the BAW on Google cloud container platform without Openshift. When they tried to export the BAW solution package from v21.0.3 to BAW v22.0.2. They found ...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered