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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

Enable BAW’s JSON parser to correctly interpret `0E+0` (scientific notation for zero) in external REST service responses.

When invoking REST services via OpenAPI, BAW fails to parse response fields that return the value `0E+0`. The parser attempts to coerce it into a Long (integer), which Java does not accept in scientific notation, leading to a `NumberFormatExceptio...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

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 ...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Prevention of service flow call within context of inactive snapshot

Service flows on inactive snapshot could be unavaiable to call using REST interface. E.g. When URL-runnable human service X is using service Y (configured as "Allow calls from trusted callers"), the Y service is callable by REST using callerId of ...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

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 ...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Jira Stories to BAW Code traceability

Dear IBM Team, I have a requirement to establish test case traceability from Stories to code via JIRA. I did check for any suitable documentation in the IBM Documentation website, but couldn't find any such information.
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Use of OpenAPI Properties allOf, oneOf, anyOf

Business Case need use of the allOf, oneOf, anyOf provided from Rest OpenAPI
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Ability to migrate dynamic teams from one snapshot to another

The migration of process instances and tasks will not transfer teams or manager teams to a new snapshot context when a team filter service is used. The teams associated with a task that utilizes a team filter service will block the deletion of the...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

New Data Mapping dialog in Process Center 23.0.1 should differ between input, output and private variables.

Case TS014697681 was opened to address that the new data mapping dialog does not differ between input, output and private variables.We were told in the case:"It's irrelevant as to what tab you are on (input mapping, output mapping) as to what vari...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

The new data mapping dialog in PC 23.0.1 should switch between graphical and JS input and wait for input or leave the existing one instead of emptying the existing values.

After our move to BAW 23.0.1 and Process Center 23.0.1 we were struggling with the new data mapping dialog and opened case TS014292733. We started with data mapping as defined prior to 23.0.1 and see the "JS" marker. Then we switch to JS mode and ...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Planned for future release

Remove the case-sensitivity check when an instance is launched in PFS Process Portal

As worked on case TS013115945, when a user is updated in LDAP from lower to uppercase of vice-versa, PFS and BAW does not update the user as expected since it checks the full path with no case-sensitivity… if it matches the exact same path, it’s s...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration