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:

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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Add the user role as an input to the service cache

the current caching mechanism in BAW is not designed to take the user's roles into account when serving cached data. The caching mechanism uses only the service's input data as index for cached data. Our business requires the caching mechanism to ...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Automatically expand the visible script window when clicking into it (events, pre/post, etc.)

Currently a developer has 2 ways to see code not visible in a code window 1. Scroll inside the small 3 lines window (events) or the 10 line windows for pre/post script windows 2. click the up arrow which expands the window to 18 lines. Problems wi...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Support automatic retries for service invocations

Support automatic retries for service invocations. Services can be temporarily unavailable or they can timeout (for a variety of reasons). It would be helpful to be able to configure n number of automatic retries for a service in a service flow in...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support the ability to import schemas independently

Support the ability to import schemas. It seems that all objects have to be discovered from a service interface or manually defined. It would be helpful to be able to import a JSON or XML schema
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add Task instance and Process instance REST APIs to the Operations APIs

Currently https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=update-put and https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=instance-put-setdata are not available as Operations APIs here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=apis-operations-rest-reference...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Directly Support OAuth when invoking a REST service

Currently to use OAuth when invoking a REST service, you must use JavaScript as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/23.x?topic=service-invoking-rest It would be very useful to have OAuth directly supported like basic auth and API Key ...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Use GIT or Artifactory for Process Snapshots instead of Workflow Center

Use GIT or Artifactory for Process Snapshots instead of Workflow Center
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support JSON-to-XML and XML-to-JSON conversions directly in BAW (without the need to import a 3rd party library)

Support JSON-to-XML and XML-to-JSON conversions directly in BAW (without the need to import a 3rd party library)
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to delete records from single table in PDWDB

Currently REST API's allows to purge by date and cleans all the tables. We need few tables for months and few for days. So we should have ability to select individual tables to purge and provide dates.
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

While Installing BPM the users/schemas are given DBA level access which causes security concerns

While Installing ISC which works on top on BAW/BPM . There are many privileges which are given to the 14 users created for the installation with oracle DB . All the priveleges are mentioned on the below link : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/22.x?...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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