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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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App and Snapshot filters

It would be nice if we had a filter text input at the top of the Process Applications or Toolkits tabs (next to the "Sort by" button for example) where we could enter a few characters and this would filter the list of Apps/Toolkits based on that n...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

log4j 1.x jar support ended. Upgrade log4j.jar versions to 2.15 and above

We understand that log4j1.x jars are used in the product not vulnerable but the older version of the jar can carry lot more other vulnerabilities.
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

In Case Information widget in a Case, move documents to a parent folder

In a BAW application including case features management, we are using the "Case Information" Widget in the "Case details page". For the "Documents" tab, we want to be able to move one or many documents directly to the breadcrumb (folder) to a PARE...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

BAW Portal Dashboards Multiple Teams

In Process Portal you can save searches and share with a team. It would be nice if you can share with more then one team. We the Developers are the ones creating those custom dashboards for our users, by only be able to add one team my peers can't...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Text in the Case Comments cannot be copied

Hi, The case comments pop-up window does not allow copying the case comment text. Can this be fixed as soon as possible. Thank you.
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

PFS support for new releases of ElasticSearch

Process Federation Server (PFS) supports an externalized Elastic Search service at version 6.x of ES. Internally PFS uses the Elasticsearch Java High Level REST Client 6.1.4, and the Elasticsearch doc states that it supports interacting with&...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

IBM BAW to support Java11

Hi IBM Team, As per our Citi requirements BAW product has to be run on Java11. When we checked with vendor support on this. They have confirmed as "At this point, there are no plans for IBM BAW to support Java 11. " We Citi CATE Engineering team r...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Properties in Property Table should not be all required

When we use property table in the BAW case builder, we have optional properties, but the widget always make all properties required, it is not make sense.
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Support Microsoft SQL Server versions for installation BAW on containers

BAW on containers not support sql server databases. Only db2, oracle and postgre.
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Delivered

Add WORKPLACE view data custom sorting function

The data displayed in workplace cannot be sorted by user, which is very inconvenient. I hope to add this function.
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered