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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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:

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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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  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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Enable BAW’s JSON parser to correctly interpret `0E+0` (scientific notation for zero) in external REST service responses.

When invoking REST services via OpenAPI, BAW fails to parse response fields that return the value `0E+0`. The parser attempts to coerce it into a Long (integer), which Java does not accept in scientific notation, leading to a `NumberFormatExceptio...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Allow use of Postgres or other lightweight development database with IID/UTE for BAW

This would speed up the development process so that BAW developers would not need to rely on their system administration team to install local DB2 on each workstation for a local development database. Postgres would be a popular choice but any lig...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Archival Support for BPMN Process Instances in CP4BA/BAW

Currently, CP4BA/BAW provides an archive system for BPEL (BPC) process instances, snapshots, branches, and tracks, but no equivalent feature exists for BPMN process instances.Providing a consistent archival mechanism would allow users to move comp...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Integration of IBM BAW BPEL with IBM Transformation extender maps over RestAPI - OpenAPI 3.x using REST import binding

Integration of IBM BAW BPEL with IBM Transformation extender maps over RestAPI - OpenAPI 3.x using REST import binding. Background: We used to integrate BAW with IBM ITX through mediation modules, as mediation modules used to have ITX primitive to...
25 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Prevent Users from Modifying CMIS Queries in ECM Document List in IBM BAW

The ECM Document List component in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) dynamically generates CMIS queries to retrieve authorized case documents from IBM Content Platform Engine (CPE). However, penetration testing has revealed that users can int...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Return "error" object in onError event handler for BAW Service Data Table UI component

The Service Call UI component in BAW returns an "error" object in the onError event handler so the developer has access to details about the error and can even display for the user, if desired. This request is simply to add the same for "error" ob...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

IBM Integration Designer add RHEL 10 as a supported platform.

Redhat is must easier to use with gnome desktop and more simple that the restrictions in Windows platforms for UTE. The Unit Test Environment (UTE) JDBC connection to Db2 requires manual interventions and developers must work with Security require...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Enable Document Processing toolkit functionality within BAW workflows to support document field highlight interaction.

Currently in CP4BA, the Document Processing toolkit is only supported within Business Applications and is not intended for direct use inside Business Automation i.e (BAW aka workflow capability). However, there is a growing need to integrate advan...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Link to Case: documents(FileNet/CMOD) attached to case must have On Hold symbol/icon

Currently it is confusing if attached/Link documents are not having On Hold symbol. Client as Well IBM will benefit. When user link FileNet/CMOD documents to the case, that documents must show the On Hold icon/symbol against each document. Current...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 8 Not under consideration

Create nested BAW internal groups when creating BAW internal groups from a process application deployment

Internal groups are also created implicitly during a process application deployment if the snapshot includes security groups that do not exist on the target system. But, if those internal groups have nested internal groups, those nested groups are...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

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