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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Enable communication from BAW in containers to SOAP services

There are some clients who are starting to implement BAW and other automation capabilities in containers, however, some of those clientes have an old integration layer where they have some apps and services build in SOAP 2.0 or other versions; the...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Improve conformance to WCAG 2.1

WCAG Compliancy is a government requirement. Current non-compliancy does limit product acceptance, negatively impacts solution valuation. Dutch government entities do test all her applications against WCAG before go-live. Several non-compliancy f...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

Improve the visuals and definitions for when using custom assignment

The downside now is the "where used" functionality, so our improvement idea could probably be changed to "Improve the visuals and definitions for when using custom assignment". For us the best solution, instead of using custom, would be if there e...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Future consideration

Conflicting exposed business data-types should result in warnings in Process Designer

When making variables in a process visible in Process Portal (exposing them) Web Process Designer should show a warning that the variable will result in a conflict on the server, and as such should be avoided if possible. A simple check against th...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

BAW Create a new BPM Project Application or Toolkit Branch from scripting command

It is possible to create a new Project Application or Toolkit Branch (aka Track) from the BPM classic Workflow Center console, as described in the product Knowledge Center: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS8JB4_20.x/com.ibm.wbpm.admin...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Prevent users to access BPM Process Admin

We would like to prevent non-admin users from accessing Process Admin Console. Can you add this functionality/enhancements in BAW future versions?
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add reference when REST service is invoked in a scripted way

When REST service is called using script as described in Docs for some cases, reference in "where used" is lost which makes it hard to perform dependency analysis.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support all OOTB business objects in external REST service

Data types like ECMID from BAW toolkit are not supported for external exposed REST services. This is a limitation which forces to do business object remapping to cloned structure without these OOTB data types. It would be beneficial to also allow ...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

JS API - Updating instance variables is missing from JS API.

Updating instance variables is missing from JS API. TWInstance.businessData.put("xyz", "123") has no effect.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

JS API - Claim Task is missing from JS API

Claim Task is missing from JS API. Only reassignTo() is available, which always succeeds, even though the task may be claimed by someone else. Add Task.claim(TWUser).
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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