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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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Issue with updating WAS Admin passwords for IBM BAW where special characters are included as part of password

Hi IBM Team, We are trying to automate the solution for updating WAS admin passwords [CELLADMIN and BPMADMIN] that get generated by the CyberArk Vault. As suggested by IBM Support, used Jython list syntax to change the wsadmin Passwords but still ...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BAW Content Management - Ability to update document properties using JS API while using addVersion() method or a separate JS API

We currently using LiveConnect API to invoke Java packages from JavaScript to perform document property updates. LiveConnect feature is deprecated from BAW 19 version. We are trying to use .addDocument(String type , String name , String fileLocati...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Rename the 'Subject' column of in-baskets to 'Activity'

The Subject column name has always rather confusing. For legacy cases it should have been named Task and with BAW it should be Activity. (The value of Activity is obviously the process instance name, but since 'activity' is really the generic term...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Add task due date as a selectable system property in in-baskets

Task due dates are a major feature in BPM, but when building case solutions with processes implementing case activities there is no way to view, sort or filter on task due date in Navigator in-baskets. There is only a cryptical icon in the left-mo...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Added workplace team "custom view" function

In workplace, you can query processes in various states through "customized view", but this function is not available in "team". Customers need to view the completed process through the "team".
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add WORKPLACE view data custom sorting function

The data displayed in workplace cannot be sorted by user, which is very inconvenient. I hope to add this function.
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Archive multiple snapshots at once

I would like a new feature where you can select multiple snapshots of a single application/toolkit and archive them all at once.Currently you have to right click each of them one by one and select archive
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring of Event Manager outside ProcessAdmin console

Need a way to monitor the status of event manager outside the ProcessAdmin console.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

CP4BA BAW needs to meet performance requirement in a headless system orchestration with scaling with containers

CP4BA BAW needs to meet performance requirement in a headless system orchestration with scaling with containers.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Toolkit dependency matrix

The purpose of this matrix would be to identify which all applications are using a given toolkit for easier maintenance and change management. For large and complex implementations of BAW such as ours with ~30 process apps and ~50 toolkits, it's s...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration