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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Version 9.2.x

Configuration updates or certificate renewals cause pods to restart following a rolling recycling strategy

Please refer to TS021723214 and TS021609280. As documented in TS021609280, when a configuration change is applied—such as updating the transaction timeout XML in /opt/ibm/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/configDropins/overrides—all CPE pods restart s...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

Retrieval of group name associated to a batch

We would need a supported API, database query, RuleRunner action or .NET API method that allows a custom action running in RuleRunner to retrieve the Group Name(s) of the group(s) associated with the current batch at runtime
2 days ago in Datacap Submitted

Introduce authoring‑time validation (or mandatory warning) in IBM Operational Decision Manager to prevent saving decision table preconditions that contain unresolved placeholders (e.g., <a number>), which currently pass validation but fail during deployment.

IBM ODM allows users to save decision table preconditions that include unresolved placeholders without errors or warnings. Although these preconditions appear valid at design time, they consistently cause build or deployment failures. This creates...
2 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Submitted

Offer more Customization Options for IBM Workplace

Currently, customizing IBM Workplace is not supported, which stands in contrast to the flexibility previously available in IBM Process Portal. At the moment, the only supported option is to build a completely standalone work portal using the four ...
17 days ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Add official support for Apache Kafka 4.x (including 4.1.1) in IBM ODM Decision Server Runtime.

Currently, IBM ODM 9.5.0.1 includes a Kafka client version 3.9.1 and is officially supported only against Kafka 3.x environments per the published compatibility matrix. Upgrading Kafka infrastructure to version 4.1.1 (e.g., IBM Event Streams 4.1.1...
9 days ago in Operational Decision Manager Under review

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 5 hours ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x Under review

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 6 hours ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x Needs more information

Cater for User Task Events that mutate process variables

The application I'm working on is being migrated from BAMOEv8 to BAMOEv9. It makes heavy use of process event listeners and user task event listeners that evaluate business logic and update process variables. I have found there is some tension bet...
about 14 hours ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Submitted

Project‑Specific Document List View Properties within a Single Object Store

Background We are currently using the IBM FileNet Salesforce Connector to manage documents across multiple business projects under the same Object Store. Today, document list view properties are configured at the Object Store level and apply unifo...
about 17 hours ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

IBM Content Navigator and Change Class with Entrytmplates: original entry template should be set as default selection

When checking in a document with an entry template in the ICN, the original entry template is not automatically set as the default. Users are forced to manually select an entry template even when they have no intention of changing it. ### Current ...
1 day ago in Content Navigator Submitted

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