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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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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
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

PFS saved search to support TWSearch JS API

Client is running on BAW on premise. They have TWSearch JS API in applications, and users are using saved search in Process Portal. The problem is, client gets saved search query performance issue in PROD from time to time, and they have big runti...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

implement monitoring of operator activity (IT employees - developers, administrators) on BPM platform

Customer is planning to implement monitoring of operator activity (IT employees - developers, administrators) on BPM platform. The goal is to obtain a clear, cross-sectional summary of activity over time for individual process developer. The summa...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Under review

Management of replacements and absences from Workplace

Allow management of substitutes, absences and automatic reassignment of tasks from Workplace, similar to what was possible via the “My Substitutes” / “I am absent” checkbox in Business Process Choreographer Explorer. The activation of absence per...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Lack of Task History

Summary IBM BAW does not allow to access the history of a given task. IBM BAI does not allow to build this history neither. The Task database only contains the latest state of a Task. Events generated by the product related to tasks don’t have eno...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

New user name (LSW_USR_XREF.USER_NAME) should be updated if re-created regardless of upper and lower case changes.

BAW manages user as case insensitive. So if re-creating user again with different case(ex. old='TESTUSER', new='testuser'), BAW treats new lowercase user as the same user as old uppercase user. We understand that this is working as designed, and n...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

There should be a feature to limit the number of workitems that can be created in a Case Client In-Basket.

There is pagination feature of maximum of 50 workitems per page in the In-basket. The performance of the In-Basket can be degraded when there are tens of thousands of workitems in the In-Basket. To improve the performance, there should be a limit ...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Future consideration

Remove reliance on WAS 8.5.5

Many customers in the public space are mandated to use current versions of products. WAS is currently at version 9, but BAW requires WAS 8.5.5 creating a technical roadblock that requires a policy waiver and special attention by the security team.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Hide CMIS query objects when running a service

As per security team recommendation, Information that can help attackers to have an idea of backend query should not be disclosed in HTTP requests and such queries should not be constructed at server end.
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Increase the Case Manager in-basket filter to more than 200

The number of work items that are contained in an in-basket is displayed on the tab next to the in-basket name. The default paging size is 200 and is not configurable, as an IBM Content Navigator implementation. technote: In-baskets - IBM Document...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists