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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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Prevent users to access BPM Process Admin

We would like to prevent non-admin users from accessing Process Admin Console. Can you add this functionality/enhancements in BAW future versions?
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

userid/password that connects to a CMIS server are stored using AES encryption with hard-coded key in an environment variable

The userid and password of a system account that connects to a CMIS server are stored using AES encryption with hard-coded key in an environment variable. Remmendard Actions from HSBC Security team: Secure storage of cryptogrphic secrets; (Separat...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM Case Manager EDS sent all properties for each update request causing unnecessary updates

Originally opened as Ticket# TS004001245 The Solution has many properties enabled for EDS on the Case. When 1 property is updated in a case, all properties are sending over to EDS. Since There is no attribute to tell which property is modified, th...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Flexible Cleanup of BPM DurableMessages

IBM BAW provides a command for removing BPM Durable messages.BPMDeleteDurableMessages command:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS8JB4/com.ibm.wbpm.ref.doc/topics/rref_bpmdeletedurablemessages.html BPMN Processes can often have an extend...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Process Monitor Data for Exporting

Export Process Monitor data into csv or xls for reporting.
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

BAW generated DDL is not z/OS DB compliant

Issue #3 DDL format is not for DB2 z/OS: Source DDL generated doesn't conform as required by standard DSNTEP2 (a program on mainframe- provided by IBM with DB2) . If we had a custom DSNTEP2 that supported longer line length that would alleviate th...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

See exposed items from nested toolkits on process app settings page

The process app settings page shows exposed items form the process app and its toolkits, but does not include those from nested toolkits (only directly dependent toolkits are taken into account). When having a large number of nested toolkits, this...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Refresh BPMDocumentList Automatically

In our application we have a startable client side human service in which there is a list of every instance of our application. Every instance in that list is unique and contains its own information, including some attached documents too. To acces...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Coach Views Help Text Enhancements in BAW 19.0.0.3

In BAW 19.0.0.3 there is a new feature for displaying Help Text for coach views using a question mark icon before the control. In previous versions Help text was displayed on hover of the coach views, but this is not working for some time now and ...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Change request to Process Performance Gantt chart

Product: Business Automation Workflow V18.0.0.1 Gantt chart in BAW Process Performance Dashboard displays duration times of a process. (see attahced gantt.pg)And the duration time is "END_TIME-CREATION_TIME". From TASKS view, BAW also saves START_...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration