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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).


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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

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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...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Functionality already exists

Log a Xpath of impacted transformation files

At the moment both BPM and BAW logs only impact transaction file (xsl or custom xsl ) but that is very challenging and time-consuming task to narrow down a root cause, so it would be great if new feature can be added to log failure xpath and impac...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Under review

Allow to connect Integration Designer to Workflow sever for UTE

As current Integration Designer 23.02 has 2 related vulnerabilities and client systems are not allowing to install complete IID UTE version due to security restriction, it would be helpful if IID allows to connect remote Runtime BAW (workflow server)
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Under review

Test SSAS on a SQLServer DB on AWS for Case Analyzer component

My client needs SQL Server and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) for their Case Analyzer component. They are moving to CP4BA and wanted to know if IBM supports this. I was told by support and product team that because it was not tested it is not...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improve Performance of "Show counts for all in-baskets" Option, which currently uses expensive getFilterCriteria calls

(REF: TS017813455 - Slower system performance after upgrading to BAW 23.0.2) After upgrading from BAW 22.0.1 to BAW 23.0.2, users are reporting slower performance in loading inbasket. Through TS017813455, it was found that this was due to a differ...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

We need an OOTB process to bulk delete Cases and Case documents that have met retention guidelines

We need to make sure that records are disposed of in a timely manner and currently there is no straightforward process to delete the Case, Case documents and workflow assets. The discussion here about the Case Rest API seems to indicate it address...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Have REST API for Deleting Process Instances also delete indexes for those processes

We use the DELETE method of /std/bpm/processes for our operational instance purge. We recently discovered that while the call removes the instances, it leaves behind the Process Portal Indexes and Task Indexes. The only way to clean those up curre...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to fetch all the nested groups and users from a parent group

In a BAW user group, we have the option to add users as well as other BAW groups. With this approach, there is always a chance that we could have several layers of nested BAW groups. We are looking for a way (some kind of API) to find all the user...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

It would be helpful to have the ability to access the case comment window and case property window simultaneously, enabling users to easily copy data from the case details page to the comment popup window.

When a user opens the comment pop-up window from the case details or work details page, they should be able to access the property widget or documents tab and seamlessly switch between them. This functionality would enable users to easily copy inf...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Federated Process portal task list refresh on events

Currently, the federated tasks list for work or any saved search is refreshed periodically (default: 60 seconds). This behavior is causing confusion for customers, as they are unsure whether their tasks are being completed until they manually refr...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration