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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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Copy variable to JSON in Data section of WPD Inspector

It would be very useful to have Copy to JSON functionality when inspecting objects in Web Process Designer. In Data section there could be a button for each variable (and its param and param of param and so on). Please refer to uploaded image "Cop...
about 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

Ability to copy and paste comments from/to the comments widget

Business requirement is to have A Comment Widget available on the screen (and not on click of a button) so as to make sure the case handler(s) can enter a manual comment at any time - Main requirement in this Comment Widget is that the case handle...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Implement line wrapping in portal web interface

In Process Portal web interface, there is not line wrapping implemented. Customer needs to enlarge the columen in order to see all the text.This line wrapping functionality should be implemented in one of the next releases.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Add rich text activity description to client-side human service

The heritage coach had the ability to access the rich text activity description via the processActivityRichDescription property of the TWTask object. However, the new client-side human service does not have the equivalent functionality, it only ha...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Tree layout of exposed process in IBM BPM 8.5.7 Process Portal Dashboard

Currently the process in left navigation appears as vertical which is clumsy and its quite difficult to identify the right process to start with. To get rid of the long and clumsy list of processes, a professionally designed layout like Tree/Folde...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Adding a new private variable as a list of a new complex type to a new CSHS doesn't work properly

Adding a new private variable as a list of a new complex type to a new CSHS doesn't work properly. The variable type of the new variable in the "Private" variables section is given as String, instead of the newly-defined complex type. See the scre...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Customizing Unstructured Activities

Customization of the unstructured activities you can design in the process designer only show the name of the activity as defined during design time.However, during run time it would be helpful to provide context to the activity so that the end us...
over 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Support for zVM V7.3 and later for current (21.0.3.1) and future BAW releases running on zlinux.

We need to have support for zVM 7.3 and later for BAW 21.0.3.1 and later because of the expected EOL for zVM in 2024Q4. Not having this is severly hindering our LCM for zVM.
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

You can modify the name of the case solution

When developing processes and CASE, the process name can be modified, but the case solution name cannot be modified. Please allow the name of the case solution to be modified.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Disabling of Drag and drop feature from the IBM BAW desktop

In order to ensure security, it may be necessary to restrict access to uploaded documents for certain users. However, users can utilize the drag-and-drop feature from the BAW desktop to upload documents. It would be advantageous to have the option...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Delivered