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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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Allow subfolder creation via the "Document Explorer" widget

We can use the "Document Explorer" widget in case tasks but if we point to a case subfolder, then it is not possible to create a lower level subfolder. Subfolder creation should be possible at any level and not only at parent case folder level.
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Add the Ability to View Previous Snapshots and the Copy to Tip Functionality to Web Designer

In desktop designer, we can view processes and service implementations of prior snapshots. We also have a copy to tip functionality. If we find that we need to go back to a prior version of a process or service implementation, we can go to the sid...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

"Added by" filter uses all the user from the LDAP

When searching cases by the property « Added by “, a field is shown to help choose the proper user. But the field search is linked to all the users from the LDAP, even if the users are not allowed to used Case Management. We are expecting that "Ad...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Need exception handling for user without DisplayName, i.e., user list cannot be shown for reassigning case

Need exception handling for user without DisplayName, i.e., user list cannot be shown for reassigning case. In version v18, no issue even there is account without DisplayName but it is not working after upgrade to v19.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Log4j Patching (IBM fix - IFPH42728)

We are planning to implement patch Affects versions 2.0 to 2.14.1 of Log4j patching at WAS infra level. But we are using Log4J version 1.2.16 in IID. So will the patch fix at WAS level work at IID Level too? what will be the impact on the IBM BAW ...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Support Microsoft SQL Server versions for installation BAW on containers

BAW on containers not support sql server databases. Only db2, oracle and postgre.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

Ability to make discretionary case activity name Uneditable Or Remove the Field "Enter A Name" while creating an activity

We are using IBm Business Automation Workflow ( On Prem) V 19.0.0.1. When we Add a Activity to a case, there are 2 optiosn that appear :1. Select a Type2. Enter a name When value in Select a Type is selected from the Dropdown, it is automatically ...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Improve scrollbar place in Web ProcessCenter for MacOS users

In Process Center some scroll bars are overlapping the real content and prevents from a smooth usage of the designer.
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 4 Delivered

Reassign hooks

Feature to add a "hook" at reassign actions (either at Portal or API) to trigger actions like WS call i.e.
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

IBM Recommendation on choosing JMS, MQ JMS, Generic JMS and MQ Binding

Does IBM knowledge center or developer works portal has any articles about Different JMS bindings and in what scenario we have to choose them? Most of the times we can use any of JMS binding for JMS communication. Then how these four are different...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered