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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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See task details of a task assign to my teammates

As a simple member of a team (no manager), I want to see all the tasks of the team (even those who are assigned to other users). I also want to see task detail of tasks assigned to a teammate (no actions available, but information displayed)
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Vault Integration for Postgres RDS Creds in BAW on Container

Customer: Discover Financial Services Product: Business Automation Workflow on Containers version : 22.x onwards Discover Financial Services Design Pattern is to have postgres credentials in vault and pods can fetch the credentials through init co...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

VDS / OUD should be supported on BAW on Container versions

Customer: Discover Financial Services Product: Business Automation Workflow on Containers version : 22.x onwards We are looking for Virtual Directory Server / OUD support on BAW on Container since DFS is using either VDS / OUD. The BAW current ins...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Adding Cases view in Workplace

In the IBM documentation it is stated that "Workplace brings together process, case, and workstream functions" but there is currently no Cases view which requires users to constantly navigate between Workplace and Cases. For the sake of consistenc...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Provide mechanism to limit authorization for BAW OnCloud service accounts to specific BAW exposed REST Service endpoints

Currently when a service account is created in the BAW OnCloud instance, it has access to any out of the box REST endpoints or REST Service that is developed as part of a solution. It would be very beneficial if, when provisioning or after creatio...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow Case workitem email notifications to open the item directly so the user can review and take action

Current email notification links direct the user to the in-basket instead of the worktime they need to process.
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Functionality already exists

Sort and filter activities in Case detail

Allow to sort and filter based on criteria like type, status, creation date, completion date, etc. activities in the case detail activity tab.
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Provide notification before LTPA token expires

Our Process Servers have been upgraded to BAW 20002. At this release, when the LTPA token expires, users are logged out without notice. In some cases end users have lost information entered into data fields.
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Process Admin - Ability to search or filter snapshots in Installed Apps tabs

In BAW v23.0.2, the newly redesigned Process Admin console comes with Pagination when loading snapshots under "Installed Apps" tab which is good for performance reasons. However, in non-production environments that are shared by multiple applicati...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

store the encrypted FileNet password into 2 locations

to store the encrypted FileNet password into 2 locations so that the hacker will not easily decrypt the password even the encryption key is being stolen
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration