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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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Conversion utility needs to support additional types

BPM 8.6 provides a utility to convert deprecated items to newer types (for example, converting General System Services to Service Flows). However, the current utility does not support all item types, especially older ones. For example items of typ...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

View team member's task statuses in Work view style

Work view is a task list where all available tasks to a user are displayed.This is a good view to display all tasks at a glance.My customer requests that:1. User's manager can view team member's task statuses in the view. Team member's statuses ca...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Wire labels could be better positioned

When developing services wires are used to connect various activities. These wires often have labels when leaving Coaches to quicky identify which View is triggering boundery event. These labels are currently a mess because (I think) they ar...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Sorting in BPM

Main Function: The filter in BPM needs to be extended to support multiple column sorting, the columns that can be sorted should be configurable and retrieved from a service with display and column names. The server-side customization of each servi...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

The item display panel on the right is not interactive. However, it can be focused with a keyboard Tab

Only interactive elements should receive keyboard focus. If the panel requires tabindex property for focus managemet purpose, use tabindex="-1" instead. TS012499507
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Content overlap and horizontal scrolling is triggered when zoomed up to 200%

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 200% TS012511136
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The Add button is placed at the start of the form. Users have to tab backwards to trigger the button when they complete entering the data

Place the button after the form TS012511147
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

The "Advanced search" heading is not coded with a heading

Code the main heading of a modal dialog using h2 TS012511154
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Dropdown form controls such as "Case type", "Match criteria" etc are not programatically associated to the input in focus. When focusing on the component using JAWS screen reader, the label is not announced

Ensure the element on focus is programatically associated using aria-labelledby property. TS012511161
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The X button on the top right is focusable to keyboard. However, the element does not has an accessible role such as button

The X button on the top right is focusable to keyboard. However, the element does not has an accessible role such as button Code the element using button or link element. Alternaitvely, provide role="button" or role="link" PMR: TS012511121
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration