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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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

Version 8.0.x

Sensitive information disclosure vulnerability where usernames are exposed in page source, enabling potential user enumeration and targeted attacks.

Information disclosure occurs when sensitive data is unintentionally revealed through web page source code, HTML comments, or error messages. This information can often be extracted via browser developer tools. Impact When sensitive information, s...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x Not under consideration

Security misconfiguration-internal folder disclosure

When folder names or paths are visible in the source code or HTML structure of a webapplication (e.g., via inspect element), it can inadvertently reveal the internal architectureto users. This information can be particularly valuable to malicious ...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x Not under consideration

Turn off Browser Autocomplete

The autocomplete attribute in HTML forms is used to control whether browsers should automatically fill in input fields with saved user data. When set off, it should prevent the browser from suggesting previously entered values Impact If autocomple...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x Not under consideration

Automatically requeue jobs that are "hung" in status RUNNING, QUEUED or RETRYING

Refer to this case : https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500gJ0000041QiyQAE/running-jobs-remain-in-state-ruuning-forever-after-a-network-issue?language=en_US I am running process instance in BAMOE 8.0.5. My process include a REST call in an aync ...
8 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x Not under consideration

Is there a smarter / different way we can accomplish profile variables in Decision Central?

We create profile variables to capture dynamic and changing values, trying to find is there a smarter / different way we can accomplish profile variables in Decision Central?. More details will be provided once we have a case engineer assigned
10 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x Not under consideration

At least once a day users will have to restart redhat because it just gets stuck spinning on something.

At least once a day users will have to restart redhat because it just gets stuck spinning on something. Please investigate in the back end to find the root cause as we are unable to write rules
10 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x Not under consideration

Master branch: The master branch is editable. Would be good if this was not the case.

Master branch: The master branch is editable. Would be good if this was not the case as we accidentally push to master branch.This could cause unexpected issues as the code is pushed into master branch which should only be done by pull request
10 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x Not under consideration

Unit testing is inconsistent in it's results.

Unit testing is inconsistent in it's results. Sometimes it fails multiple times, then suddenly passes when tested later with no other changes.
10 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x Not under consideration

Validation check passing in rules authoring but failing in test execution

Having some issue with validate check passing in DC where a specific import is missing, i.e. import com.abc.api.product.applicant.Income. It’s passing validate check however later on our testing is throwing errors. Can we check in DC if there is a...
10 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x Not under consideration

Unique Rule ID - Require an unique rule id to be generated for every rule before storing to github

Currently there is no unique rule id or number for each rule.Require an unique rule id to be generated for every rule before storing to github.Unable to uniquely identify the rules or order by id
10 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x Not under consideration