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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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log4j 1.x jar support ended. Upgrade log4j.jar versions to 2.15 and above

We understand that log4j1.x jars are used in the product not vulnerable but the older version of the jar can carry lot more other vulnerabilities.
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Allow business managers to view and manage all the tasks for a given BAW solution

In the BAW documentation it is mentioned in the "Configuring in-baskets for roles" section that "You can assign this in-basket to a manager or supervisor role in addition to a personal in-basket" but there is also a note that says that from V20.0....
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Use of Deaja Viewer by default when viewing a document in a task

We are using CP4A 20.0.3 and it is not possible to use by default the Daeja Viewer to open the Document Preview in a case client task. This means that file viewing / downloading relies on the browser configuration and the behavior is not consisten...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

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...
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...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Selecting a later page in "Work" tab results in many API calls to reach that page.

When looking at the "Work" tab in Case Client, directly choosing a page other than the first one results in an ever-increasing number of API calls to the MergedWorklistService. The code is effectively calling “nextPage” until the desired page is r...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Coach - Drag and drop document in a task

When a user is in a coach to process a task, he can add a document using a popup window to browse his computer's content. In addition, the user wants to be able to add a document by doing a drag & drop in the document widget
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 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

View - ECM Document Explorer - Filter document type

In the UI toolkit, there is a View called "ECM Document Explorer". This view is used to add some documents, folder, display documents ,... The problem is when adding a new document, all the document classes are displayed. There is no way to filter...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Automatically check if fields set as "required" on the page are empty

In the BPM page, you can set the visibility property (visibility) under the UI control of Plain Text to "required", but when the user submits the page, it does not automatically check whether it is empty, but needs to be set manually, which increa...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered