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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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Request for multiple format handling in UI component DateTimePicker

The BPM UI "Date Time Picker" component in BPM UI Toolkit, can as per today, validate input with only one input format, i.e. yyyy-MM-dd when entered by the user using the keyboard. (in addition to the ability to pick a date in the calendar that po...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

Enhancement Request for executing the acceleration api or acceleration tool of BAW in a better approach in Container Platform of GCP

Our customer is using BAW 22.0.2 in Container platform of Google Cloud. They found that, in their live system environment (i.e. container platform), the execution of the acceleration tool (i.e. restful api) will be failed if process instance is ru...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Case Manager 5.3.3 Not updating security on deployment

When a case manager solution has users/permissions added to the role, and the security manifest is applied to the solution, these roles are not getting added/removed to/from the folder in the target object store : Root Folder\IBM Case Manager\Solu...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

IBM BPM - Saved Search Filter on multiple values

In the saved search we want to see the tasks from two different Process Apps. Is this possible by creating a Saved Search filter from the portal. The screenshot is for 1 process app. I want to do it for 2 process apps (Please refer attached)
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

508 Issue - Search Page Widget – Unlabeled Search By Field

This issue was original opened as a PMR but the Product Team asked the it be submitted as an Enhancement Request. The PMR Number is TS002789819 (it wouldn't let me add to this form due to new PMR Number formatting) Also, this Enhancement Request i...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Enhance Validation errors and warning message

In the Process Center the panel that displays the validation errors and warning is a nice to have but when a error/warning mesage is displayed it does not (always) specify which activity has the problem so you basically have to go to each activity...
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Open/public Federation APIs in IBM BAW

Currently federated list is created by fetching data from a BPM database. The protocol is closed. Please open and make protocol public so that it is possible to create home grown federated server
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Implement a tool for moving case data across existing environments

5 years back we had one Traditional VM based BAW cluster. It was having a few separate BPM and Case applications running on it. System load was quite high, for example CPU and memory resources were running out and making the system unstable and un...
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Support additionalProperties in OpenAPI Spec

additionalProperties in the OpenAPI spec is not currently supported in BAW per the following documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/22.x?topic=30-restrictions-invoking-rest-api-service It would be very useful to have more of the OpenAPI sp...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

User management trail functionality for system auditing

Many BAW user companies are required to prepare SOC report (System and Organization Controls) on a regular basis. The report should include when users and groups in the system were created, when they were deleted, etc. In the BAW, users are often ...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered