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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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Allow custom "tw" client side properties

Support case: TS002069687 Currently, IBM BPM 8.5.7 CF2016.12 and IBM BAW 18.0.0.1 support the following: tw.CSHSPresenter = {...} Then in each diagram step it may be possible to use the code tw.CSHSPresenter.init(); without increasing the security...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enable CaseSynchronizer to run in "report" mode

Enable CaseSynchronizer to run in "report" mode ===================================== Client reported a concern that, in large installations, they need to anticipate the impact of running CaseSynchronizer tool. client expects granularity of the to...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add a threshold metric to BAW Process Admin Console alerting definitions, for process instance steps

The Process Admin Console for BAW enables definition of runtime alerts for Process Instances or Tasks, based on various metrics.In the Process Monitor there is a metric being captured for the number of times a step is executed in a process instanc...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Table is used for layout purpose. However, they are not coded with presentation role

Table is used for layout purpose. However, they are not coded with presentation role , Provide role="presentation" to all layout tables
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Integrate the open source instant messaging system to receive message reminders of process tasks

It is hoped that IBM can integrate an open source instant messaging system to receive message reminders from process tasks. For example integrating https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse It is hoped that electronic form functions (such as IBM Forms...
over 1 year 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 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Display date property with date format only, no need hour/minutes/second

There are some properties have only date nature (yyyy/mm/dd), no need HH/MM/SS, but in CMS, it displays all datetime properties with “mm/dd/yyyy, HH:MM AM/PM”, such as "1/25/2022, 12:00 AM"
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Improvement for TwSearch functionality in IBM BPM. Need to be able to find all instances regardless of task status

TwSearch functionality in IBM BPM is only fully functional for administrators. Regular users, i.e. case workers, might be misled by information from dashboards as they don't get to see some of the instances. Process instances are only visible if t...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Changing Context Root of Case Manager Components, such as ICMClient

Currently we are not able to change ICMClient context root. The context root is hardcoded in some java scripts. If we change the context root in WAS console, the hardcoded context root in the javascripts won't be changed and then Case Manager appl...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration