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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).


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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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Pinned ideas

PINNED Filter UI enables having OR between filters (not just AND)
Users want to filter cases for client1 OR client2. They can't without creating a custom filter with javascript -- which they don't like at all
PINNED SQL statements in Dashboard Widgets
I think using SQL statements in widgets would be great to leverage the entire potential of the data uploaded to IBM Process Mining. Lots of important and helpful information cannot be displayed today as it's only SQL-like. I don't think that using...

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does BAW support the VPAT - Voluntary Product Accessibility Template

does BAW support the VPAT - Voluntary Product Accessibility Template TS012639264
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

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

We need the support "Integrating with IBM BAW by implementing a robot task" on Japanese environment.

Integration with IBM Business Automation Workflow(BAW) and Automation Anywhere Enterprise(AAE) is important function. That discriminates IBM RPA with AA and other RPA tools include original AAE. "Implementing a robot task for a basic setup" functi...
over 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 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

Ask for a specific volume number

Process - IER ICN Desktop > Work Area - "Work Item" list From - "Process In-basket" window Function - Ability to filter/search for For - Electronic Record Folders' properties When/Example - User needs to find a specific volume by name GAIG Prio...
about 1 year ago in Enterprise Records 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

New NFS storage can be added

Now when we use the cloud Pak environment, we find that we can't add NFS storage, but can only use the NFS storage configured when installing the environment, which is very inconvenient. Customers may have multiple storage devices, old NFS server...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Functionality already exists