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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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Reset the overdue flag upon changing the custom data field without leaving and coming back to the same step

When the custom date field is updated to future date for overdue cases from BAW/Case Manager screen, the overdue flag should reset and recalculate the deadline, without moving the worktime from its current step.
28 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Ability to fetch all the nested groups and users from a parent group

In a BAW user group, we have the option to add users as well as other BAW groups. With this approach, there is always a chance that we could have several layers of nested BAW groups. We are looking for a way (some kind of API) to find all the user...
7 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Federated Process portal task list refresh on events

Currently, the federated tasks list for work or any saved search is refreshed periodically (default: 60 seconds). This behavior is causing confusion for customers, as they are unsure whether their tasks are being completed until they manually refr...
8 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

BAW standalone on Azure AKS should support use of AGIC Appl.Gateway Ingress Controller

Client runs Business Automation Workflow 23.0.2 standalone deploment on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Currently, Ingresses are configured using custom nginx Ingress Controller as multiple attempts to configure ingresses using Azure Gateway Ingre...
21 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Add support for Unicode characters via the NVARCHAR data type to the out of the box SQL connectors in the System Data toolkit

We have a use case for needing to insert unicode characters into a MS SQL Server database. MS SQL Server supports unicode via the NVARCHAR data type, but we prefer to use parameterized queries and there is no supported NVARCHAR type for the SQLPar...
15 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Integrate Open telemetry into BAW

Proactively Monitor BAW Server as per their business requirement
20 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted