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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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Fix Process Designer to filter out control characters which cause issues in Process Center

If a developer somehow enters a hidden control character, Process Designer accepts it and stores it in the underlying XML for the process model. However, if such a control character is present, Process Center cannot promote the Process Application...
over 9 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

See exposed items from nested toolkits on process app settings page

The process app settings page shows exposed items form the process app and its toolkits, but does not include those from nested toolkits (only directly dependent toolkits are taken into account). When having a large number of nested toolkits, this...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Need improvement in assignment's behavior of "last user in lane" when activity pass through sub or linked process.

Please, bring back the task to last user in lane when using subprocess or linked process A PMR regarding this issue has been submitted by Orange. This PMR as of today is closed, with the indication that the requirement should be submitted as RFE (...
almost 12 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Providing funtionaility for Business Automation Workflow on Cloud users to extract reports of activted , invited but not activated , inactive users on BAW

The client needs a functionality to export the list of activated , inactivated and invited users for BAW. This will be helpful for keeping track of the users especially the ones who were invited but didn't activate their accounts. This will unbloc...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Planned for future release

Refresh BPMDocumentList Automatically

In our application we have a startable client side human service in which there is a list of every instance of our application. Every instance in that list is unique and contains its own information, including some attached documents too. To acces...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Coach Views Help Text Enhancements in BAW 19.0.0.3

In BAW 19.0.0.3 there is a new feature for displaying Help Text for coach views using a question mark icon before the control. In previous versions Help text was displayed on hover of the coach views, but this is not working for some time now and ...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Copy paste images into Rich text editor

It is very much requirements from clients to allow them to Add images/ Copy paste / Attach screenshots through ctrl+c, ctrl+v or copy paste option.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Tune and optimize resources with standalone runtime PODs with BAW which are not used exclusively for business purpose rather internal functional usage of various services

Summary: We understand following core components i.e. runtime pods required for standalone BAW installation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=cibaw-containers-in-v2103-installing-configuring-migrating-business-automation-workflow The sta...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Upgrade server side Rhino engine to use ES6 functionality

According to ticket Case number TS010336517 it will be very helpful to have more updated functionality (like arrow functions) in JavaScript language on server side.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

The created Case type can be deleted

After adding a case, it cannot be deleted, which is very inconvenient. Please add the delete function to allow the administrator to delete the added case. Although the link below provides a method, it is too complicated, please provide a one-clic...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration