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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


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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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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...
about 12 hours ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

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 ...
about 12 hours ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

New user name (LSW_USR_XREF.USER_NAME) should be updated if re-created regardless of upper and lower case changes.

BAW manages user as case insensitive. So if re-creating user again with different case(ex. old='TESTUSER', new='testuser'), BAW treats new lowercase user as the same user as old uppercase user. We understand that this is working as designed, and n...
6 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

IBM Process Designer is missing the properties specified by business objects shared in Case Builder

The case builder supports the reuse of Business Objects as Properties. In BAW Workflows (with case features) the use of properties and BO is supported. The reuse of properties is supported but not supported for BO. It's clearly for us an issue, be...
11 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Snapshot deployment PALException should be more meaningful

Problem description: Snapshot deployment / installation always throw generic PALException exceptions and not the actual cause of the issue. You need to dig through logs to find the actual cause of the problem Improvement Proposal: Instead of the g...
7 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Option to reset the service result cache in BAW Process Admin Console

In Process Admin Console (under 'Manage Caches') interface, there is currently no option to perform flush/reset operation for Service Result Cache in scenarios where some data change happens (for eg - when users sometimes modify the catalogs which...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Ability to refresh process models in Workflow Center automatically after installing an iFix in Business Automation Workflow (BAW)

In scenarios where customer has huge of process apps/models, fix is effective only when customers modify the processes in some minor way or when they remove and readd the process app back in Workflow Center.
about 1 month 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...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Re-assignment of Work items in Bulk

User/role should be able to reassign BPM workflow items in bulk for other users/roles, the same as it's in: [Case Features (Case Manager) - How to reassign tasks (By code) | BPM, Workflow, and Case (ibm.com)|https://community.ibm.com/community/use...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Exception handling:: Client-side Human Task with attached UCA

Scenario: Process has Client-side Human Task with attached UCA. Once UCA is triggered, the task needs to be completed automatically. Issue: User is working with the Client-side Human Task -> UCA has been triggered -> User is not aware about ...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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