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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 the configuration of global libraries/shared libraries (java) (Ref case TS018621875)

Context: We are migrating from twas BAW 23.0.2 to latest CP4BA version. In our BAW process applications we use external services extensively. Mostly to integrate with in-house rest/soap services. These external services(java code) all read propert...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Integrate Absence Management Features into IBM BAW

In complex and long running processes implemented with IBM BAW where many different workers are involved in activities a way of managing absence of workers and specific named substitutes for taking over the ongoing activities is needed. IBM BAW un...
4 months 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...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Submitted

AI Code Assistant Integration for IBM BAW

Enable integration of AI-powered code assistants within IBM Business Automation Workflow to support users in supporting, refining, and understanding code across the platform. Similar to capabilities found in modern IDEs, this assistant would provi...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Create button for group sync

As today we have a button on the UI for users sync but need to access swagger and run the group sync through api. It would be easier and intuitive to have this api displayed as buttons on the UI.
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Future 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...
27 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

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...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 7 Planned for future release

Add property within the Deployment Environment configuraion properties file to disable data sources

When migrating exisiting configuration to new machines some DB's might needed to be blocked . In our case we have created a duplicate test environemnt for our BAW version so we needed some DB's data sources to be blocked.
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Needs more information

Enable Runtime Access to Secrets in CP4BA Applications

In the current implementation of CP4BA 24.0.1, while it is possible to create and store secrets securely, there is no built-in mechanism to retrieve these secrets dynamically at runtime from within a BAW application—either from a service flow or J...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Under review

WfPS integrate with Prometheus for https run time

To elevate application performance monitoring at Morgan Stanley, our Grafana dashboards need HTTPS request metrics. The current WfPS system does not facilitate this, this is creating a critical gap in our ability to proactively identify and resolv...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration