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:

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

Decouple BAW and CPE due to licensing issue

Currently, it is not possible that Process Portal to be used (without repository - CPE) in a CP4BA environment, as it is tightly coupled currently. The operator configures CPE URL, its credentials, its connection information as part of the BAW pod...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

Spellchecker included within the Rich Text UI control.

Users would be able to utilize a generic spell checker within the control, avoiding the need to export and re-import text just to check spelling.
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

Enable BAW’s JSON parser to correctly interpret `0E+0` (scientific notation for zero) in external REST service responses.

When invoking REST services via OpenAPI, BAW fails to parse response fields that return the value `0E+0`. The parser attempts to coerce it into a Long (integer), which Java does not accept in scientific notation, leading to a `NumberFormatExceptio...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

Customization of the Teamworks login page

We are seeking to customize the login page located at teamworks/login.jsp. However, we understand that there may not be an officially supported method for doing so at this time.
7 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

Prevent Users from Modifying CMIS Queries in ECM Document List in IBM BAW

The ECM Document List component in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) dynamically generates CMIS queries to retrieve authorized case documents from IBM Content Platform Engine (CPE). However, penetration testing has revealed that users can int...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

Add property within the Deployment Environment configuraion properties file to disable data sources

When migrating exisiting configuration to new machines some DB's might needed to be blocked . In our case we have created a duplicate test environemnt for our BAW version so we needed some DB's data sources to be blocked.
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

Directly Support OAuth when invoking a REST service - in ON PREM BAW

Saw a similar request with this description:Currently to use OAuth when invoking a REST service, you must use JavaScript as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/23.x?topic=service-invoking-rest It would be very useful to have OAuth dir...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

Preventing Multiple Concurrent Openings of the Same Task in IBM Process Portal

when a user opens a task in Process Portal, it is still possible to open that same task again in another tab or browser window. If there is a built‑in configuration, setting, or recommended approach that allows user to restrict a task to only one ...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

Process Admin: Prevent synchronizing users that return in user searches in BAW, BAStudio

By default, all users returned from a user search are automatically added to the BAW database tables. This behavior can become problematic when a Process Admin user search returns a large number of users, resulting in unnecessary data being insert...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

Archival Support for BPMN Process Instances in CP4BA/BAW

Currently, CP4BA/BAW provides an archive system for BPEL (BPC) process instances, snapshots, branches, and tracks, but no equivalent feature exists for BPMN process instances.Providing a consistent archival mechanism would allow users to move comp...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

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