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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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Convert the coach views to the React Code

Currently, our applications UI is developed using the Coach Views of the BAW tool. However, we are now planning to transition to React-based UI, and i would like to understand how to configure it for this migration. We are using the Cloud Pak for ...
30 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Automate the ICN Update to the DBUpgrade.sh command run

Case number - TS018744340 This is required step 12 in DBUpgrade https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7175521 deployment_manager_profile/dbscripts/Upgrade/cell_name.deployment_environment_name/database_type/database_name.schema_name/upgradeSchema...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Predefined nested sorting for inbasket

Load the inbaskets with pre defined nested sorting (More than 1 field) Allow users / admins to change the fields based on needs. Persist the nested sort after the filter
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Enhancements in Infinity Loop Detection Properties for batch runs or schedules

Existing Loop Detection Property : <service-engine> <loop-detection-duration merge="replace">240</loop-detection-duration> <loop-detection-exception merge="replace">true</loop-detection-exception> </service-engine&...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Add support for MS SQL Server and/or AWS RDS for Business Automation Workflow (BAW) on Containers (not CP4BA).

We are an IBM partner, and our long-term IBM Case Management Federal customer is migrating from IBM Case Manager on a Linux environment to Containers on AWS. The backend database is MS SQL Server. Currently, BAW on Containers does not support MS S...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

In BPM, we need to have details of last login of a user and feature to enable or disable user if last login is greater than 30 days

It is useful to sort out only active users frequently using MDM. We need a feature to enable or disable an LDAP user based on last login of LDAP user in application. We also need a feature to delete the LDAP user from MDM application. This feature...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Test SSAS on a SQLServer DB on AWS for Case Analyzer component

My client needs SQL Server and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) for their Case Analyzer component. They are moving to CP4BA and wanted to know if IBM supports this. I was told by support and product team that because it was not tested it is not...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improve Performance of "Show counts for all in-baskets" Option, which currently uses expensive getFilterCriteria calls

(REF: TS017813455 - Slower system performance after upgrading to BAW 23.0.2) After upgrading from BAW 22.0.1 to BAW 23.0.2, users are reporting slower performance in loading inbasket. Through TS017813455, it was found that this was due to a differ...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

We need an OOTB process to bulk delete Cases and Case documents that have met retention guidelines

We need to make sure that records are disposed of in a timely manner and currently there is no straightforward process to delete the Case, Case documents and workflow assets. The discussion here about the Case Rest API seems to indicate it address...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Have REST API for Deleting Process Instances also delete indexes for those processes

We use the DELETE method of /std/bpm/processes for our operational instance purge. We recently discovered that while the call removes the instances, it leaves behind the Process Portal Indexes and Task Indexes. The only way to clean those up curre...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration