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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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BAW backward-compatibility issue of v21.0.3 (Case Management Function) for BAW v22.0.2 container platform in Cloud

Hi BAW product team, Our customer is performing the function test on BAW v22.0.2. They deploy the BAW on Google cloud container platform without Openshift. When they tried to export the BAW solution package from v21.0.3 to BAW v22.0.2. They found ...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Execution evaluator for Web Designer

in Process Designer we got Execution Evaluation to check any data expression it is very useful for quick debug and production support.Could you please reintroduce this feature into Web Designer?
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Real Estate in Web Process Designer

From ALLIANZ LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES NORTH AMERICA: Real estate is an issue in Web PD compared to Desktop PD.
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Auto-sizing and preferences for portal column widths

Table view in process portal (work or a saved search) uses a very conservative width-distribution, leaving some columns truncuted while others have lots of wasted space. Using IBM BPM Express 8.5.7.2017.06. Sub-requests of extension, in order of i...
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Use of Deaja Viewer by default when viewing a document in a task

We are using CP4A 20.0.3 and it is not possible to use by default the Daeja Viewer to open the Document Preview in a case client task. This means that file viewing / downloading relies on the browser configuration and the behavior is not consisten...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Allow business managers to view and manage all the tasks for a given BAW solution

In the BAW documentation it is mentioned in the "Configuring in-baskets for roles" section that "You can assign this in-basket to a manager or supervisor role in addition to a personal in-basket" but there is also a note that says that from V20.0....
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Nutanix AHV support

Nutanix AHV(Acropolis Hypervisor) is becoming major hypervisor technology for enterprise use. IBM Business Automation Workflow should support Nutanix AHV as supported hypervisor technology.
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

log4j 1.x jar's support ended. Move jar versions to 2.15 and above

We recently found out that BAW uses log4j 1.x version which is unsupported version. We understand that log4j1.x jars are used in the product not vulnerable CVE-2021-44228 and it is vulnerable to CVE-2021-4104 if JMSAppender feature is used. Howeve...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Better debugging for BAW

Debugging has several shortcomings that need to be fixed. Otherwise, it is all but impossible to properly maintain your solution! 1) There is no debug for Client-Side Human Services, like there used to be for the older style Coaches.2) Service Deb...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Extend Process Federation Server /launchableEntities API with filter for "type"

In adoption of Process Federation Server (PFS) we are moving from current solution which leverages BPM API for ".../exposed/process" - a specific use of "/exposed/{type}" as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS8JB4/co...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered