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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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Expanding the column Hight automatically for single select and text type a head to show the options

We have situation that requires the single select and text type a head to be in a table control and when the user try to select an option for the options section is not visible until we modified the Hight of the table cell, we need it to automatic...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Enabling the scroll bars for text type a head control

We need to enable the scroll bars for the text type a head control to limit the size of the options panel and enable the users to scroll and select what they need
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Enable and disable of automatic selection of items if the typetext-ahead option is selected on the single select control

In IBM BAW Version 24.0.1, the single select control includes a configuration option that enables the type-ahead functionality, allowing users to search within the control. However, customers have encountered an issue where, if the control contain...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Is a defect

Dark mode for case workers

Due to current laws being implemented we need to add functionality for our case workers, if they choose to, have dark mode in our Client Side Human Services. Are there any plans to add Dark mode as a user setting, just as language, for case worker...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Snapshot Pattern Selector in IBM BPM/BAW Process Designer

ProblemCurrently, when creating snapshots in IBM BAW, users manually enter snapshot names. This can lead to:- Inconsistent naming conventions- Difficulty in tracking versions- Errors in deployment pipelines Proposed SolutionIntroduce a Snapshot Pa...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Request to update the "Validation errors and warnings view" if there is data mapping error in the service flow.

If there is error of data mapping in the client-side human service, the "Validation errors and warnings view" is updated to indicate its error.But, if there is error of data mapping in the service flow, the "Validation errors and warnings view" is...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Auto refresh team member if team retrieval service fetches data from database.

Team members are not auto refreshed if team retrieval service fetches data from database. How to enable to real time auto refresh of teams when team retrieval service is used.
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide a way inside case builder or in the backend to copy a case activity and its underlying process

We would like to copy the sub activity of a case Type and create a new sub activity with different name to it.
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Specific log files for different apps

When using IBM BPM on cloud, we need some capability as developer to define different log files for different process application).
about 8 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...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Planned for future release