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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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Attached event with policy file instance migration not moving token to completed after attached activity task completed

Instance migration with policy file not moving tokens Multiple changes in a BPD in our main track and we needed to merge the UCA into a release track but didn’t want the other changes. So the UCA was created manually in the release track with the ...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

backport functionality which was added to version 20.0.0.02 of have execution evaluator run on workflow server

in an open case we had about not being able so run execution evaluator from the web designer to run javascript commands against the workflow server , which does exsist in the desktop desinger. we were told that this feature will be added to the we...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Support additional environment types for Environmental variables

In Process Designer, Environment Variables tab currently supports setting Default values, plus values for 4 environment types (Development, Test, Stage, Production). We have an Application team that wants to use 5 different environments (each has ...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add support for consuming REST service with INT64 field

currently when consuming a REST service if it contains an INT64 field. the field cannot be used according to the following documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/19.x?topic=service-limitations-invoking-rest We ask to enalbe consuming a RES...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Create a BAW inbound Web Service to accept http request using a valid custom XSD

No description provided
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Email synchronisation with active directory or IBM directory for BAW notifications

To enable email notification for BPM based worflow, the end user must go in the process portal, encode manually the email address where he want to receive the notifications and finally select the type of notification he want to receive. We need to...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Instance dates in PFS Portal

If you want to migrate Saved Searches from BAW to PFS and the SS uses date fields from instance, you cannot migrate the saved searches. Some of the fields that are usable out of the box in BAW saved searches are not usable as is in PFS saved searc...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release

Request for enhancement on BPM saved Search function

Based on current saved search feature, user can create saved searches without specify any application name, and this caused the saved search performance slow issue and also impact performance on DB level. So we request enhancement to add mandatory...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Descriptive Error Messages for BPM Document Upload Failures

This idea is related to improving the error messages that a user sees when they try to upload a document and the upload fails. Currently, there is only a generic "Upload failed" type error message. The generic error message that the upload failed ...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Scroll bar availability for single select and text control

Need scroll bar availability for single select and text control as we are unable to see the whole text when displayed as read only field and width as 33%. IBM support team has provided 2 solutions but end users are not satisfied with the solution ...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration