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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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Page title should be auto change based on the current opened page

Page title should be auto change based on the current opened page
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

The Relationship Start Date placeholder text is used include the date format. However, the text does not meet the minimum contrast ratio

Ensure contrast is at least 4.5:1. Alternatively, place the format indicator within the label TS012511071
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Red text on white background does not meet minimum contrast ratio requirement

The current contrast is 4.46:1. The minimum requirement tis 4.5.1 and above IBM Response TS012511036 Thanks for sharing the screenshot to help me understand the issue. Actually we do not have document to commit the minimum contrast ratio. So I hav...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Ensure content and functionality is retained when viewed on mobile breakpoint. There should not be content loss, overlap or horizontal scrolling when page is zoomed at 400%

BAW Version: 19.0.3 Content overlap and horizontal scrolling is triggered when zoomed up to 400% Ensure content and functionality is retained when viewed on mobile breakpoint. There should not be content loss, overlap or horizontal scrolling when ...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Support running BAW on z/OS either natively or using a container.

We are currently using BPM on our z/OS systems and we want to migrate to BAW for this. The backend systems that our developers use are CICS, MQ and DB2 all running on our z/OS systems. So we would like to install BAW on z/OS either natively or run...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Allow Case Solutions to be upgraded using the BAW Admin Client

During an upgrade we are supposed to Upgrade the Workflow Servers first and then later upgrade the Workflow Center. Using this process it will break the deployment pipeline for Tradional Case Solutions. New development work won't be able to be dep...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Case Properties in Coach UI

Once, IBM Case Manager solution is migrated to IBM BAW, case properties should be supported in Coach UI. As of now, if we drag any case property it throws warning message 'Content Object is filtered and can not be referenced.'
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

Allow multiple tasks selection in My Team Performance for bulk assignment

On BAW v19.0.0.2, the Team Performance functionalities have been changed (UI / basic logic). One of the old functionalities present in "My team performance" on BPM v8.0.1, was the possibility to multiple select tasks and assign them to a user/grou...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Functionality already exists

Request for enhancement on BPM Saved Search to support users not in participant process

Our business is looking for a solution to search against all accessible process instances / tasks, not just process instances with task assigned to their team or tasks available, completed by themselves.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Internal variables for coach views

It would be very useful if we could have internal variables for Coach Views. Currently there are Business Data, Configuration Option and Localization Resources. I would like to add one more type of variables: "Internal". Those variables would not ...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists