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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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EJB Sessions should be renewable especially when running exposed Human Services.

We would like to be able to renew an EJB Session for a user. Increasing the timeout as described here ‘https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1JR50708' is not possible, as with many users this would increase the heap size unjustified.
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Managing navigator access points to allow multiple clients on the same URL in a CP4BA environment.

Clients who want to access the Case Client, using other different URLs instead of the default one. For now when they are trying to access the case client from a different route, it fails with CORS error. Seems the content navigator plugin is calli...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support for additonal databases ( like MariaDB and MySQL) with Business Automation Workflow

We request the addition of support for MariaDB and MySQL as official database options for IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW).
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improvement CSP Case Notification

Adding screenshots/pictures in comment field for customer replies: As a large IBM customer we need better CSP case notifications that already contain important information in the subject. Attached an example. This shows that it does not contain im...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

OpenAPI support for allOf, oneOf, anyOf

Allianz is looking to support allOf, oneOf, anyOf. TS015216832 is open to address this limitation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/23.x?topic=service-openapi-support.
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Include Gantt Chart and Diagram feature in BAW or a similar view for workflows

There is a limitation of using federated Process Portal with BAW product, the Gantt Chart feature is not available in the container version. Although in several cases, a complete diagram workflow shows the user more information or details of the w...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Code management in Process Center

Code management in Process Center is very limited; standard code repositories enable you to do branching and merging. Tracks offer a very limited branch capability, but there is no way to merge tracks other than manually moving items (which is a v...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enable JavaScript editor for JS web or server files

There should be an editor for uploaded JavaScript files so when the JS file needs to change, we could open the wanted artifact and just change the code. It could be a new type of artifact, or you can leave JS file as Web or Server File as it is no...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Group & Individual Tasks Email Notification

Hi Team, All Users in the group getting email when a Group Task is created, is causing a lot of emails that Cornerstone users do not need to receive. This seem like a product feature, but there is an ask to see whether we can limit the emails only...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

WebPD: Ability to debug instances running on Inactive snapshot

In an online/connected workflow server environments, Desktop PD has the ability to debug instances running in Active and Inactive snapshots. However with the Web PD, we only have the ability to debug the instances running on the Active snapshot. C...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration