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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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Order BAW Process Admin EPV variables alphabetically.

Ordering BAW Process Admin EPV variables alphabetically will add to ease of maintenance and verifying values quicker.
14 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Support for reallocating a single BAW process application.

We are in the middle of a migration to move away our process applications from iPas (Pure Systems) to another target platform. The preferred target platform will be CP4BA on OpenShift. However, there might be applications that somehow will not be ...
21 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow for object store mapping procedure in Online snapshot installs

Previous Case Manager users who have Case solutions with solution artifacts (stored searches, email templates, etc) outside of their DesignOS are unable to do solution deployments via online snapshot install because the online install process skip...
15 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Submitted

Preserving sequence of toolkits when importing process apps

One of the steps during the migration is exporting all the process applications from existing process center on IPas (Workflow Center on Traditional WAS) and importing them into a new / empty process center on container / OpenShift platform (CP4BA...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Need to manage tasks with dynamic team

If a task is created and gets assigned to the team, if the team gets altered (i.e. a new member is added to the team after the task is assigned to the team), the new member should also see the task in his / her list of tasks.
6 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Time-Based SLA Escalation Paths

Allow visual configuration of SLA escalation logic (e.g., email reminder after X minutes, reassign after Y hours) to Reduces reliance on external scripts or custom logic for escalations.
6 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Modern Low-Code UI Designer for Coaches

Introduce a React- or Angular-based coach designer with drag-and-drop components, real-time previews, and built-in responsive design.
6 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Ability to migrate dynamic teams from one snapshot to another

The migration of process instances and tasks will not transfer teams or manager teams to a new snapshot context when a team filter service is used. The teams associated with a task that utilizes a team filter service will block the deletion of the...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Process Inspector should allow to filter Process Instances on Process Start Date

BAW Process Inspector allows to filter processes by Status, Sev. Type, Process App, Person and Last Modified Date. In addition to these, Process Inspector should allow to FILTER on Process Start date to allow Business Analysts to dig into process ...
12 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Remove the character restriction for #$\&=^ in Business Automation Workflow

Business Automation Workflow advanced software doesn't accept the usage of specific characters including #$\&=^ in the external or internal passwords, citing the invalid characters usage in the password from command line tools: "property has a...
7 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted