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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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Finding Active Token Instances For The Given BPM Name or BPD ID with ACTIVITY ID/ACTIVITY NAME

WELLS working on one new requirement where it needs to find all active tokens in given BPD(All instances for the BPD). Currently the solution identified with existing exposed REST API, execution context can be retrieved either in JSON/XML format a...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

twperfsvr.war (and product in general) should not use external internet DTD references

The Support Node (Performance Server) would not start for us on BPM 8.0 and BPM 8.5 due to a combination of product references to external internet DTD URLS and some oddities in our own firewall implementation. The BPM product should not refer to ...
about 10 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

Need to restrict the Delete Document operation on the files atteched to a process from the "Processes" dashboard

We have a requirement to customize the "Processes" dashboard from the Process portal. Our requirement is that, we don't require the "delete document" operation from Documents section. Kindly help us how to disable/delete this operation from "Proce...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

"teamworks.Mail" allows "," as a part of file name of several attachment files.

"teamworks.Mail" don't allows "," as a part of file name of several attachment files. If "teamworks.Mail" is able to use "," as a character in the file name, it will improve the convenience of using "teamworks.Mail".
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

WebService Servers move to other domain, how to simply update external WebService service in BPM end to reflect the change

When using an external WebService service with WSDL, if there is any change in the content of the WSDL, we can always update the external service by re-runing the external service wizard. But recently our WebService Server changed domain and ip ad...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add resource files to process variables

We would like to use localized resource files in our process models. Alternativley it would be useful to have a app-wide api for this. Like this: tw.system.getResourceByName("name", ("language"))
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

IBM BAW Webservices (Inbound webservices on BPD Layer) are not filtering SQL error when URL is manipulated

When we try to access an inbound web service ( exposed in BPD Layer) with a malformed URL , it prints SQL error to the calling client giving access to database details . There does not seem to be any way to control the SQL output (Potential for SQ...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support running BAW on z/OS either natively or using a container.

We are currently using BPM on our z/OS systems and we want to migrate to BAW for this. The backend systems that our developers use are CICS, MQ and DB2 all running on our z/OS systems. So we would like to install BAW on z/OS either natively or run...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Application does not notify last login date and time

When a user logs into the application, the application does not display the last login time and date to the user. The last login time and date helps a user to verify that his account has not been accessed by someone else in an unauthorized way. Th...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Input Validation Missing

Input validations are required not only to stop some attacks on the application but also to stop wrong data being processed by the application. Server side input validations are important, when the client side validations are not there or could be...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration