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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

The non-editable fields are coded as disabled instead of readonly

The non-editable fields are coded as disabled instead of readonly TS012511081
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

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 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Functionality already exists

Page title remains the same throughout the case creation process. For example "US Fraud"

Page title should be auto changed based on the current opened page
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

Page title remains the same throughout the case creation process. For example "US Fraud"

The Page title should be changed based on the opened page
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

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 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 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 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Functionality already exists

Integration with Sharepoinrt 365

There is a need to integrate a business process engine with document management systems. This is recognized and we integrate through CMIS. We are observing a shift in the market of vendors relying on other sets of API or proprietary APIs. Sharepoi...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

"teamworks.Mail" allows "," as a part of file name of several attachment files.

"teamworks.Mail" don't allows "," as a part of file name of several attachment files. If "teamworks.Mail" is able to use "," as a character in the file name, it will improve the convenience of using "teamworks.Mail".
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

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 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Functionality already exists

Show task count for Saved Searches

Users wish to see the number of tasks within each saved search so that they do not have to open the saved search to see how many tasks are there.
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration