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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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Task list search to be applied for Defined properties only

Task List Search for Defined Properties Only: Currently, when performing a task list search using Elastic Search, it queries all the properties of the case, not just the ones displayed in the task list. Is it possible to limit the search to only t...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

For Document Explorer: Allow a developer to filter which document classes, display name and properties appear when a user clicks add document. Much like using an Entry Template with FileNet and Content Navigator

Allows for better customization for case solutions and only presents the information necessary for the case type being worked.
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 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...
almost 4 years 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...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Cache choice list data on the client side to improve BAW Case client performance

During performance testing of the BAW platform we observed a high volume (1 million) queries against the Cvl table during a 4 hour test of 250 users. This contributes to latency in the BAW case client UI.
over 2 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

Web PD: Ability to switch between snapshots when connected to online Workflow Server

In our BAW environment, our Dev team can connect to online Workflow servers and debug the instances. However, if we need to switch between snapshots: 1. We will have to navigate out of Web PD process inspector 2. Select the application and a new s...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

SOAP Web Services Policy set and bindings for inbound and outbound integration should be supported for CP4BA

Traditional Business Automation Workflow (BAW) supports defining policy sets and bindings for both inbound and outbound integrations. A customer who intends to migrate their existing BAW inbound and outbound integration to IBM Cloud Pak for Busine...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The feature of initiating a BPD from a UCA should be available on the same TIP snapshot

Customer felt initiating a BPD from a UCA on the same TIP seems to require a disproportionate amount of extra work. The functionality demands considerable extra effort to execute a basic operation. While this functionality exists for snapshots, it...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration