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).


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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,

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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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Enhance - Ability to have environment variables per baw server instance scoped

Possible environment variables baw server instance scoped instead of application-scoped, to allow for easier update of external services and others (endpoints, users, password, etc.) If the customer has more than 300 process apps which have a few ...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow asset sharing between BAW and BAA (Business Automation Application)

Customer (Hennepin County) developed BAA apps, including toolkits and templates. They would like to export the BAA artifacts and import them into BAW. Otherwise they will need to recode the same in both BAW and BAA.
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Rediscovery of a Web service should be possible if the location of the Web service changed (e.g., its URL or file location)

There has been a change at VKB that now requires each service being called through an NGINX reverse proxy. That change implied that the location changed from where WSDLs for Web Services are obtained: BAW should now rediscover all services via the...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Process instance migration when moving from traditional to container

IBM has a tool to migrate instances when it is traditional to traditional.The idea is a similar tool, however, to a different platform. Tool must perform a process instance migration from traditional to container platform.
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

New Data Mapping dialog in Process Center 23.0.1 should differ between input, output and private variables.

Case TS014697681 was opened to address that the new data mapping dialog does not differ between input, output and private variables.We were told in the case:"It's irrelevant as to what tab you are on (input mapping, output mapping) as to what vari...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The new data mapping dialog in PC 23.0.1 should switch between graphical and JS input and wait for input or leave the existing one instead of emptying the existing values.

After our move to BAW 23.0.1 and Process Center 23.0.1 we were struggling with the new data mapping dialog and opened case TS014292733. We started with data mapping as defined prior to 23.0.1 and see the "JS" marker. Then we switch to JS mode and ...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Revert input/output variable mapping to classic view to remove extra steps

Users are facing challenges with BAW 23.0.1's new variable mapping process, finding it cumbersome due to extra clicks and complexity, especially in complex projects. The classic mapping offered quicker, more straightforward access to variable usag...
10 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Implement a tool for moving case data across existing environments

5 years back we had one Traditional VM based BAW cluster. It was having a few separate BPM and Case applications running on it. System load was quite high, for example CPU and memory resources were running out and making the system unstable and un...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enable User to Assign a Name when using the reassignTo JS API to prevent the usage of "Temporary Group" as the display name.

Tasks created via a Team Filter Service are provided custom names for ex: "The Analyst Team", or "Level 1 Processors". However, after a reassign is done via the JS API TWTask.reassignTo. BPM Just always creates an adhoc group with DISPLAY_NAME as ...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Remove the case-sensitivity check when an instance is launched in PFS Process Portal

As worked on case TS013115945, when a user is updated in LDAP from lower to uppercase of vice-versa, PFS and BAW does not update the user as expected since it checks the full path with no case-sensitivity… if it matches the exact same path, it’s s...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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