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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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ProcessInstanceID and TaskID Generation

we had set up the new BAW environment 20.0.0.1 version.we need to set the processInstanceID and task ID generation should start from the specific value as this should not conflict with our old environment as we are using same application schema in...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

"Everyone" option of saved search can be hidden

Currently, the "Everyone" option of the Saved Search share with selection can be searched out, and the saved search will be shared with everyone. But so far, there is no scenario that need to share a user created saved search with everyone. Actual...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Check the compatibility on DB2 i servers

In current environment we have several IBM i servers which are used as our DB2 servers. there for we would like to see the compatibility of the Business Automation workflow on those i servers1. DB2 Edition -iSeries2. DB2 version -iSeries3. DB2 F...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Users with Read permission can export snapshots from the Process Center console.

System : IBM Business Automation Workflow Enterprise 8.6.1.19001 / 20190329-121307 Users with Read permission can export snapshots from the Process Center console. How can we restrict a user from exporting the application/toolkit from Process Cent...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add option to views in UI Toolkit that have "Items from Service" to not run on page load

The BPM UI Views such as Single Select, Multi Select, Checkbox Group, Radio Group always call the List Item Service when configured with Items from Service on page load. These views also offer methods such as setServiceInputData and reloadServiceI...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Getting BPM application or toolkit snapshot validation errors and warnings from scripting command

Currently it is possible to view Process Application or Toolkit validation errors from classic Workflow Center Console, as shown in the product Knowledge Center: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS8JB4_20.x/com.ibm.wbpm.admin.doc/topics...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM BPM Product Security Hardening Configuration

Security hardening configuration property added to the IBM BPM product to prevent Process Portal from using PUT or DELETE calls, and request to instead use POST calls with the x-override-method header.
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Autofocus on first editable field in Spark UI

Support case id: TS003978989 With the íntroduction of Spark UI in BAW you haveto specify in which order fields require focusmanually. This is a source of error when you reorganize fieldsor introduce new fields on a coach duringmaintenance. Previou...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Enable Partitioning for BPM / BAW table CONTENTS

Problem raised with IBM as Case number TS003756070 We are using Db2 as the database to back BPM and BAW. The largest table CONTENTS has grown to 2Tb and will continue to grow because we do not have an archiving strategy in place for the contents t...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Support setting default document type in Document Explorer

The issue is about lack of default document type when uploading files through new document explorer which were available in responsive document explorer. The details of the issue are put in PDF attached to this case. Our BPM version is 8.6 2018.03...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration