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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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Setting default Coach View for a Business Object type

It would be nice to be able to set default coach view for each business object. Something like associating files with program. If there are multiple coach views that have the same business object type as binding, user could choose which one would ...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Time-based filter for Swagger "/bpm/processes" and "/bpm/user-tasks" APIs.

Swagger "/bpm/processes" and "/bpm/user-tasks" APIs can retrieve and get a list of process and task instances with instance data. These APIs can get instance data with "optional_parts=data". So, the results can be used as audit data of instances f...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support additionalProperties in OpenAPI Spec

additionalProperties in the OpenAPI spec is not currently supported in BAW per the following documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/22.x?topic=30-restrictions-invoking-rest-api-service It would be very useful to have more of the OpenAPI sp...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

MQ integration using integration.jar

Hi, We are trying to BAW with MQ i.e. trigger process in BAW when messages arrive on queue. We are using jmsIntegration.jar. The api's available in this jar allows reading only one message at a time. Since we want to try avoiding long running loop...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The "Set User Authentication" option is not available in WebPD when you remote debug into a PS.

Set User Authentication option is missing when process is run/debugged from remote process server. This option is used to run/debug human task with another test user id. Please refer PMR - TS006594335 for more details. It has videos & everythi...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Add "Email Send IBM BPM Email" service into System Data toolkit for BAW Container environment

Based on current BAW documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/22.x?topic=reference-system-data-toolkit "Email Send IBM BPM Email" service is not supported in BAW container version, which causes the existing applications developed from BAW on...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

CP4BA Case client not responsive in mobile browsers

On CP4BA 21.0.3,the case client is not responsive in mobile browsers.The project is developed for thousands of pepople in the company. The CU is clamoring for the mobile browser support for CP4BA Case Client.Please share the schedule to implement ...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

How to automatically retrieve team/user/group permissions and authority that are defined individually for each Process App as a list in a batch.

Right now, the configuration is visually checked for each Process App (snapshot) from Designer, which makes it difficult to make simple comparisons and prone to errors.For example, we would like a way to automatically extract settings and permissi...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Process Inspector: alphanumerical sorting the list of installed snapshots

In the left sidebar of the Process Inspector you can filter the instances based on certain Process App snapshots. The list of installed Process Apps are sorted, but for each Process App, the list of snapshots is not. (On some environments they see...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM case manager case search/advance search properties display name labels

IBM case manager case search/advance search properties display name labels are not customized. In case manager case builder provides ability to given custom labels for work details page and case in baskets but case search will display original dis...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration