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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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Adjust Slovak translations in Case Client widgets and actions

Customer would like to enhance some of the provided product translations (Slovak language), which might be for end-users misleading. Here is the list of translations to change (in form of EN label - current SK label => newly proposed SK label):...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add the possibility to set Monday as first day at calendar at BAW's form

We would like to set Monday as first day at calendar at BAW's form. This is possible at ICN pages, but not at BAW's form.
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Pasting code into WebPD should be validated

If you paste a code from an external IDE/editor into WebPD coach view element like custom HTML for instance it would not be validated by WebPD editor and as such leads to unpredictable behavior like errors in server logs and coach views changes no...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to install BAW without shell BPM_ECM_DOS, BPM_ECM_TOS databases

We have a BAW standard 22.0.2 deployment and we do not use Case management features. We had to create empty databases with no tables as this is a requirement. We would like to have the ability to install BAW without needing to create empty/shell d...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

User name as well as user ID to be displayed when selecting to Modify Multiple tasks.

It appears there are two different code paths for modifying the task for one and multiple,. User will like the experience to be the same as the identification by name as well is ID makes it easier to make the selections.
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Remove System toolkits from showing up in list of Orphaned toolkit snapshots

We use the results provided by Performance Dashboard (SYSPERFDB) in Process Admin console to determine the orphaned toolkits for cleanup or maintenance. We have noticed that the System toolkits are showing up in the list. There is a chance that us...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

When upgrading BAW, Installation Manager should fail if file permission settings prevent the profiles from being updated.

I recently did an upgrade to BAW, and I ran into a situation where Installation Manager ended with warnings, saying " Configuration errors were detected during the installation." In a support case, we determined that this was because of our unusua...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

2 different "Add Case" form for different working groups

For the business needs our customer wants to use 2 different views for the "Add Case" page. So if groups "Managers" insert a new case they have to insert some certain fields. But if groups "Accounts" insert the same type of case thay must insert o...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Timeline Visualizer to support large database

We are having issue with their Timeline Visualizer in Case Manager/BAW does not display any activities comments. The root cause is due to the Case History database is huge and taking from 5-10 minutes to load in our back-end. Case Timeline Visuali...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Custom Header Propagation and Exposure in BAW

The requirement here is for BAW to propagate custom headers that are used to invoke a process/service flow throughout the entire process/server flow. Those custom headers may contain values such as an application correlation ID. The custom header ...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration