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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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Mapping list variable on error data

TS002444983 Currently it is possible to map variable which is a list to "Error End Event" in "Service Flow". It is also possible to caught the error and to extract object from error object. However, when binding the list, a validation error: "The ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Content Objects cannot be selected as mappings for an RPA Task

In BAW 19.0.0.2, if you have a Case Activity referencing a BPM Process, then you also have Content Objects that reference the Case properties. If you add an RPA task to this BPM Process, you cannot select the content objects as mappings to the tas...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Content Objects do not support default values

With BAW 19.0.0.2, there is now support for content objects when a BPM Process is referenced by a Case Activity. However, these content objects do not allow the user to specify a default value which makes it difficult to test and debug the BPM Pro...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support AIX 7.3 for BAW

In these moment we try upgrade to the last version of AIX in many of our server, that it is 7.3 and upgrade in the same time the application, but the compatibility report mention thet AIX 7.3 it´s not support. For the company is very important cou...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

backport functionality which was added to version 20.0.0.02 of have execution evaluator run on workflow server

in an open case we had about not being able so run execution evaluator from the web designer to run javascript commands against the workflow server , which does exsist in the desktop desinger. we were told that this feature will be added to the we...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

BPM WSConnector component gives wrong perception of bad performance in Process Monitor

Our customer uses IBM BPM for their daily Process Management operations. To adhere to the SLAs and to ensure optimal performance, the customer uses the out of the box Process Monitor in the Process Admin console to view a summary of the most expen...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

zero downtime patching

it is now critical that downtime for upgrades or patches is either scheduled within a tighter timeframe or done away with altogether, and done to a timescale that is specific and helpful to the United Kingdom
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Arabic text format issue in IBM BAW

User logs into Process Portal to perform the task, after claiming the task user try to copy and past the Arabic content with number , while pasting the content in UI number is automatically moved to left before Arabic text. Expected behavior is Ar...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Option to automatically activate as default even if no instances

In PC when deploying apps to PS, would be a nice feature to have the option to automatically make default the new deplyed snapshot even if the app has no processes, or on the PS are no active instances.Now if you deploy a new snapshot that has no ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Request for enhancement on BPM saved Search function

Based on current saved search feature, user can create saved searches without specify any application name, and this caused the saved search performance slow issue and also impact performance on DB level. So we request enhancement to add mandatory...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration