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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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Deleting tracks from Process Center

I am not able to delete track from an process application, I can only archive it. There are multiple tracks in an process app which are not used since long, need to clear those to improve performance. I have raised a PMR mentioned above, it seems ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Delivered

When using the get next function, if the user picks the last item in the inbasket they get a message "no more work items" when the dispatch the work item

The behavior where if the last work item is picked, and it reports 'no more items' is the behavior that was inherited from the prior release and is how the in-basket current processes work. If the customer would like it to behave differently, then...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Regression of all assigned work in basket in BPM/task side

On the P8 side this functionality works very well where if the task is assigned to the role other users of the same role can view the tasks assigned for different users on the same role. But on BPM this functionality should be introduced too, as o...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Dynamic Filter for all the inbaskets on page load

We have implemented Dynamic Filter for all the inbaskets, on initial load only first inbasket is filtering and other for inbaskets after clicking on them they are filtering but not on initila load. Have a way to filter all the inbaksets for a spec...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Debug Breakpoints for Service Flows

When debugging a Service Flow, there is no way to set a breakpoint. For large complex flows, this means you need to go through potentially hundreds of steps to get to where you need to be, which can take a huge amount of time! Like any good develo...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

BAW support for RHEL 8

Test and ensure support for BAW on RHEL 8
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Scripts to create SIB messaging tables should be delivered to create UTS tablespaces and not Segmented.

There are some DB2 for z/OS tablespaces created as part of BPM installation/customization that are used to store data from tables that belong to the SIB messaging engine. The script that is delivered to create those tablespaces should include opti...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

log4j 1.x jar's end of support dates passed. Move jar versions to 2.15 and above

When working with recently vulnerabilities(CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-4104) on log4j jars, identified BAW product uses older version 1.x jars and these are passed end of support dates. Wells Fargo has a corporate directive to mitigate the CVE(CVE-20...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Support case instances migration

Currently BPM does not support the migration of case instances. I would like to have the possibility to migrate the case instances. This is a very important feature.
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Avoid extra clic for end users by choosing LDAP or SAML

When connecting with SSO avoid for end user extra clic for choosing the correct method to connect when the method is known
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered