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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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apply icm.model.InbasketFilter after dynamic filter apply on click of In-basket tab

Our requirement is we want to apply icm.model.InbasketFilter after dynamic filter apply on click of In-basket tab. We tried to apply In-basket Filtering after a dynamic filter was applied, but this was conflicting due to wiring on the same event (...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The "Reason" field is not listed after changing EPV in Server Admin/Admin Tools/Manage EPVs

After changing the value of an existing EPV in Server Admin/Admin Tools/Manage EPVs, we fill the reason field in. But in the list of the changed EPV does not display the reason field. Therefore we do not know why previous changes have been made. T...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support federating BAW systems into multiple PFS clusters

Customer wants to federate their BAW environments into multiple independant PFS clusters to address the following use cases: - Load balancing: Gaining better performance by having multiple independent elastic search clusters, which are always up t...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support multiple versions running simultaneously in the same BAW instance

1. Case instance 1 started when there is only snapshot 1 deployed in BAW, activityA started, it triggered BAW process instance A created under snapshot 1. And another activity "activityB" is waiting for starting depends on preconditions. 2. If fou...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Planned for future release

Hiding User Profile options

When a user is editing his profile he gets a list of attributes displayed even if they are not available.We are not using "IBM Connections notification" but the option gets displayed in the user profile and would like to hide this for the users.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Expose event (either intermediate or attached) implementation for REST API call

Using rest API is a more common way to get the process implementation. Currently, IBM supports the process model and process visual model API to get the process implementation but they don't include the event implementation (e.g: interrupt option ...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support visibility concept for TK artifacts

Today all artifacts in Toolkits are public and can be re-used from other TKs or PAs that reference the TK.Yet common practice should be to structure the content of a TK in artifacts that are exposed and can be re-used and artifacts that are intern...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow custom "tw" client side properties

Support case: TS002069687 Currently, IBM BPM 8.5.7 CF2016.12 and IBM BAW 18.0.0.1 support the following: tw.CSHSPresenter = {...} Then in each diagram step it may be possible to use the code tw.CSHSPresenter.init(); without increasing the security...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM BAW to support Java11

Hi IBM Team, As per our Citi requirements BAW product has to be run on Java11. When we checked with vendor support on this. They have confirmed as "At this point, there are no plans for IBM BAW to support Java 11. " We Citi CATE Engineering team r...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Single site for REST API information in Business Automation Workflow

BAW v20 has multiple categories of REST APIs. There are separate Swaggers for the Ops APIs vs. the BPM APIs, plus there are the Case APIs that don't have a Swagger. This makes it difficult or impossible to find the information you need when workin...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Planned for future release