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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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Improve Team filters: dynamici recalc and manage members

Team filters currently calculate a set of members once, then store it in an ad-hoc group which is static and inaccessible to the developer. Team filters should allow (optional) dynamic re-calculation of their members, so that changes in the user p...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Request support for Oracle 23ai database for Business Automation Workflow

Business Automation Workflow does not currently support Oracle 23ai. This is important to customers currently on Oracle 19c, which will reach end of life in April 2026.
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

parallel development in BAW

Having a source control inside BPM to help developers in releases
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Planned for future release

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...
7 months 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

Limit the size of BPM error objects for SOAP faults

When web service calls are made by BPM applications, the service providers may reply by passing back SOAP faults to indicate error conditions. These SOAP faults are transformed by BPM into tw.systems.error objects which thereby carry the informati...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Default sort for case documents widget

When the user opens a case, the document widget defaults to sorting by "Document Title / Document Name". The business is requesting the default sort be on "Date Added / Added On" instead. Currently we can't find a way to change the default sort or...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Increase character Limit for USER_NAME value in lsw_user_xref table to 113

Microsoft AD UPN has a character limit of 113 and IBM BAW lsw_usr_xref table has character limit of 64 characters. usernames with characters more than 64 cannot be properly configured on IBM BAW. An increase in char Limit to 113 as Active director...
6 months 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
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 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...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration