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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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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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Show number of instances on a subprocess without having to drill down in Process Performance Diagram tab

Use case: When business users want to see the status and number of instances active for each subprocess at the top level The Process Portal Process Performance diagram tab shows the number of active instances for each activity in the Process App. ...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Separate Case Deployments from Infrastructure/Product Deployments strictly

When deploying Case Manager artefacts, the approach in 23.0.2 is inconsistent: While most deployment activities can be done using the caseswagger API https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/23.x?topic=solutions-case-swagger-apis There are 3 deployment act...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Setting default Coach View for a Business Object type

It would be nice to be able to set default coach view for each business object. Something like associating files with program. If there are multiple coach views that have the same business object type as binding, user could choose which one would ...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Can we compare two snapshot in Process Designer to check the details level of code

We would like to know if there is any way to compare two snapshots to understand the exact code changes to the lowest level.As far as we know, we can compare only the documentation but nothing else. If there is no way , please let us know if you h...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add the officially support for Git as software configuration management systems in IBM Integration Designer.

IBM Integration Designer has officially support about only Concurrent Versions System (CVS) and Rational Team Concert (RTC) as software configuration management systems.Git is considered a common software configuration management systems, could yo...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Customize and add new assigned task email templates

•How to modify existing templates externalmailprocesslink_{0}.html and externalmailnoprocess_{0}.html •How can I provide a custom once to be used as templates? Custom styling, corporate design, custom order of data, logos, ... •What are the data a...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add missing features from Traditional BAW environment System Data toolkit in Cloud Pak for Business Automation

Several features or components available in Traditional BAW - System Data toolkit are removed from the Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) System Data toolkit. CP4BA "System Data" toolkit has only SQL integration components available and doe...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Make it possible to set TaskAtRiskDate

Our customer is using the TaskAtRiskDate to determine which tasks needs to get immediate attention.A task at risk date which is calculated with historical duration of other tasks is useless for them.This needs to be calculated by logic which can d...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration