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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).


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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:

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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,

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  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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Improve Performance of "Show counts for all in-baskets" Option, which currently uses expensive getFilterCriteria calls

(REF: TS017813455 - Slower system performance after upgrading to BAW 23.0.2) After upgrading from BAW 22.0.1 to BAW 23.0.2, users are reporting slower performance in loading inbasket. Through TS017813455, it was found that this was due to a differ...
about 9 hours ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

We need an OOTB process to bulk delete Cases and Case documents that have met retention guidelines

We need to make sure that records are disposed of in a timely manner and currently there is no straightforward process to delete the Case, Case documents and workflow assets. The discussion here about the Case Rest API seems to indicate it address...
8 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enabling Stage names translation in Case Client of IBM BAW

Localizing the stages name into a different locale (for eg, Arabic) is currently not possible in IBM BAW. Even tying to localize the stage names using custom string approach ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/24.x?topic=applications-translating-cus...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Is a defect

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.
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enhance - Ability to have environment variables per baw server instance scoped

Possible environment variables baw server instance scoped instead of application-scoped, to allow for easier update of external services and others (endpoints, users, password, etc.) If the customer has more than 300 process apps which have a few ...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

It would be helpful to have the ability to access the case comment window and case property window simultaneously, enabling users to easily copy data from the case details page to the comment popup window.

When a user opens the comment pop-up window from the case details or work details page, they should be able to access the property widget or documents tab and seamlessly switch between them. This functionality would enable users to easily copy inf...
26 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

Ability/Flexibility to Modify/Delete Existing Case Properties

To improve flexibility and usability, it would be beneficial to enhance the product’s ability to add or modify case properties even after solution deployment. Allowing modifications to existing properties directly within the solution would provide...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow BAI updates through Intermedidate Tracking Event in Service Flows

We can currently using tracking groups to send telemetry to BAI in Business Process flows, but the same capability is not available in lower level service flows.
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Revert input/output variable mapping to classic view to remove extra steps

Users are facing challenges with BAW 23.0.1's new variable mapping process, finding it cumbersome due to extra clicks and complexity, especially in complex projects. The classic mapping offered quicker, more straightforward access to variable usag...
11 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

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...
24 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted