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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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In Case Information widget in a Case, move documents to a parent folder

In a BAW application including case features management, we are using the "Case Information" Widget in the "Case details page". For the "Documents" tab, we want to be able to move one or many documents directly to the breadcrumb (folder) to a PARE...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Text in the Case Comments cannot be copied

Hi, The case comments pop-up window does not allow copying the case comment text. Can this be fixed as soon as possible. Thank you.
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Properties in Property Table should not be all required

When we use property table in the BAW case builder, we have optional properties, but the widget always make all properties required, it is not make sense.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

The user account can choose which project area to access on the Case Builder/workflow Center

Issue: There is a default project area for each account so they can practically only update applications under single project area So we need the account can choose which project area to access the solution the Case Builder/workflow Center.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Hiding Saved Search from Process Portal

We want to create the saved searches and expose them to users group so it can be used in the custom Inbox. But we do not want to show those saved searches to the users in the Portal.
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

samesite=strict attribute should be set

TS002586394 Customer reported vulnerabilities as part of penetration testing which needs samesite attribute to be set either Strick or Lax. BAW 18.0.0.2 & WAS 8.5.5.14 https://bpmetispa.ilab.discoverfinancial.com/ProcessAdmin/ProcessAdmin/com....
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Copy variable to JSON in Data section of WPD Inspector

It would be very useful to have Copy to JSON functionality when inspecting objects in Web Process Designer. In Data section there could be a button for each variable (and its param and param of param and so on). Please refer to uploaded image "Cop...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

Ability to copy and paste comments from/to the comments widget

Business requirement is to have A Comment Widget available on the screen (and not on click of a button) so as to make sure the case handler(s) can enter a manual comment at any time - Main requirement in this Comment Widget is that the case handle...
almost 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Implement line wrapping in portal web interface

In Process Portal web interface, there is not line wrapping implemented. Customer needs to enlarge the columen in order to see all the text.This line wrapping functionality should be implemented in one of the next releases.
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Add rich text activity description to client-side human service

The heritage coach had the ability to access the rich text activity description via the processActivityRichDescription property of the TWTask object. However, the new client-side human service does not have the equivalent functionality, it only ha...
about 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered