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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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Integrating Kibana dashboards in IBM BPM (now IBM BAW - Business Automation Workflow) Process Portal

Adding Kibana dashboards to the IBM BPM (now IBM BAW - Business Automation Workflow) Process Portal can be a powerful integration, Why It Could Be a Good Idea Enhanced Visualization IBM BPM has built-in reporting tools (like Process Performance da...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Be able to add a team member to a case

Hi Actually we can't add a Team member to a closed case but in some case we need to do it like when a admin leave and want to give the full history to the person that will come after him.Can you guys make this possible ?
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Needs more information

BAW(Business Automation Workflow) or PFS(Process Federation Server) Search API to FDR, group getIndexedFieldsFromSearchInName multiple GET calls into 1 call

With external Elastic Search, the calls to perform getIndexedFieldsFromSearchInName happens individually on every 'Field' to check every 'Field' referenced in a search do exist in Elasticsearch. This slows down the search performance with External...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Under review

Provide OpenAPI 3.x spec for internal BAW REST APIs

The out-of-the-box method for integrating with external REST services is to reference an OpenAPI 3.x spec. It would be nice for IBM to provide an OpenAPI 3.x spec for the internal BAW REST APIs (specifically those under the "IBM Business Automatio...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Archival Support for BPMN Process Instances in CP4BA/BAW

Currently, CP4BA/BAW provides an archive system for BPEL (BPC) process instances, snapshots, branches, and tracks, but no equivalent feature exists for BPMN process instances.Providing a consistent archival mechanism would allow users to move comp...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to integrate Business Automation Workflow with Grafana

Grafana is a visualization tool that turns data from multiple sources into interactive dashboards. It’s used for monitoring, analysis and real time alerting. We would like to integrate this with BAW product to enhance Support Team experience by ge...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Adding the ability for the BPM File Dropzone control to upload files to FileNet

We have a situation that our customer moving from usinr BPM Embedde Object store to IBM FileNet Oject store and they were usinf BPM File Dropzone control now they need the same control to upload to FileNet and we found that it only works for BPM D...
6 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...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM Integration Designer add RHEL 10 as a supported platform.

Redhat is must easier to use with gnome desktop and more simple that the restrictions in Windows platforms for UTE. The Unit Test Environment (UTE) JDBC connection to Db2 requires manual interventions and developers must work with Security require...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under 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 ...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration