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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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Automate the ICN Update to the DBUpgrade.sh command run

Case number - TS018744340 This is required step 12 in DBUpgrade https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7175521 deployment_manager_profile/dbscripts/Upgrade/cell_name.deployment_environment_name/database_type/database_name.schema_name/upgradeSchema...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Search through code in application

The product would be greatly enhanced by having a simple search-option, to find where specific code is used. Would also be great if it supported RegEx. It would be plenty enough if it was usable to find code in Javascript/InputOutput bindings, and...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Email synchronisation with active directory or IBM directory for BAW notifications

To enable email notification for BPM based worflow, the end user must go in the process portal, encode manually the email address where he want to receive the notifications and finally select the type of notification he want to receive. We need to...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BAW repository

BAW has no general repo. in 2024 in BAW its hard to control changes done for a project which uses heavely Tracks its also annoying to manually make this changes between tracks which are prone to errors. Please develop a repository in which Merge a...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Code management in Process Center

Code management in Process Center is very limited; standard code repositories enable you to do branching and merging. Tracks offer a very limited branch capability, but there is no way to merge tracks other than manually moving items (which is a v...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Use a newer version of Javascript in BAW

JAVASCRIPT ES5 is currently used by BAW. In order to manage sequential calls and integrate client javascript modules, we'll need to use a newer version of Javascript
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Enable User to Assign a Name when using the reassignTo JS API to prevent the usage of "Temporary Group" as the display name.

Tasks created via a Team Filter Service are provided custom names for ex: "The Analyst Team", or "Level 1 Processors". However, after a reassign is done via the JS API TWTask.reassignTo. BPM Just always creates an adhoc group with DISPLAY_NAME as ...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM Process Designer is missing the properties specified by business objects shared in Case Builder

The case builder supports the reuse of Business Objects as Properties. In BAW Workflows (with case features) the use of properties and BO is supported. The reuse of properties is supported but not supported for BO. It's clearly for us an issue, be...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Git integration for Process App and Toolkit Exports

Having a fully git integration, to use merge and pull requests outside of Process/Workflow Center is essential for working on different Workflow Centers. In huge organizations and also working from different organizations, it is necessary to have ...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide Out of Box Customization Option for Email Template(from Portal)

This is a useful feature to be considered where developers/admins can configure the default process portal email notification template by customizing - HTML content Process variables including exposed business data
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration