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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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Keep format when copying content from MS Word to BAW rich text editor

Our users use to copy/paste the content from MS Word to BAW rich text editor. Unfortunately, in some case the format get lost and they need to manually change it back to how it was. E.g.,if thay copy/paste a table froma a Word document, the table ...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add Service APIs to BAW Swagger UI page

At present on the BAW Swagger UI page, we are able to see links for System, Process and User Task. It will be beneficial to developers if a link for Service APIs is also added.
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Web designer click and drag gives ugly results

When moving items around on the Web Designer canvas, lines get redrawn incorrectly. See attached screenshots for before and after.
about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Not under consideration

Attached event with policy file instance migration not moving token to completed after attached activity task completed

Instance migration with policy file not moving tokens Multiple changes in a BPD in our main track and we needed to merge the UCA into a release track but didn’t want the other changes. So the UCA was created manually in the release track with the ...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Web Designer Code editors need better JavaScript linter

All of the JavaScript code editors in the Web Designer have very simple JavaScript code checking, which means they cannot detect certain syntax errors. This means developers have to rely on visual inspection to assess code correctness, which is ve...
about 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Support additional environment types for Environmental variables

In Process Designer, Environment Variables tab currently supports setting Default values, plus values for 4 environment types (Development, Test, Stage, Production). We have an Application team that wants to use 5 different environments (each has ...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Create a BAW inbound Web Service to accept http request using a valid custom XSD

No description provided
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Not under consideration

Scroll bar availability for single select and text control

Need scroll bar availability for single select and text control as we are unable to see the whole text when displayed as read only field and width as 33%. IBM support team has provided 2 solutions but end users are not satisfied with the solution ...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Fix .setValid() to work for all Input Views

Currently some UI Toolkit Views do not support .setValid() despite documentation stating it should. The following views as of v20.0.0.1 do not show a validation indication on a coach when using .setValid(): Check Box Group Input Group Multi Select...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow user to see all names (instead of just 10) and scroll through the list when reassigning a task in the Process Portal

Currently, when a user reassigns a task to another user, they only see a list of 10 names, even if there are more, and they must start typing a user's name in order to find it and click on it. My request would be to show the full list of the users...
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration