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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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use of MIME type application/pdf in OpenAPI Rest service invocation

Business case use the need of implementation of PDF in rest api services as evolving technology
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enhance documentation and functionality for "audit log" for Process Admin Console

Currently the Cloud Pak for Business Automation documentation explains how to enable "audit logging" to track changes that are made by administrators in the Process Admin Console. "Enabling the audit log" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BAW Support OKTA/SCIM without requiring an LDAP backend.

LDAP is a dated technology. Our organization is moving away from it and toward SCIM. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/25.0.0?topic=notes-known-limitations#concept_gmf_x1h_1fb__idp__title__1 Business Automation Workflow Case...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add a setting for changing the event manager blackout period date format

There's currently no known way of changing the date format shown in the Process Admin Console for things like the event manager blackout period selector. Ideally this should be determined automatically from the user's time zone or similar exposed ...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Email synchronisation with active directory or IBM directory for BAW notifications

To enable email notification for BPM based worflow, the end user must go in the process portal, encode manually the email address where he want to receive the notifications and finally select the type of notification he want to receive. We need to...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Search through code in application

The product would be greatly enhanced by having a simple search-option, to find where specific code is used. Would also be great if it supported RegEx. It would be plenty enough if it was usable to find code in Javascript/InputOutput bindings, and...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Provide a new tool for Building, Creating and maintaining the Custom Query table

We have several BPEL Processes in which we implemented the standard functionality of the query tables. We always used the procedure described in the documentation of the IBM Business Automation Workflow and before for BPM and WPS: Creating query t...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Future consideration

Provide Out of Box Customization Option for Email Template(from Portal)

This is a useful feature to be considered where developers/admins can configure the default process portal email notification template by customizing - HTML content Process variables including exposed business data
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Migration path of runtime data between different database types.

The customer uses Oracle for the database of BAW and considers to change the database used by BAW from Oracle to MS SQL Server from system management perspective. When changing the database to MS SQL Server, the customer needs to migrate current r...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

We need a password type for environmental variables

We would like a password type that obfuscates the password value for environmental variables. We have several services that we call with basic auth with a system user. Developers are not allowed to know production passwords. This means that we hav...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration