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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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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

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 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.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

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

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

Ask Your Repository Feature need to have the feature configuration option for choosing the default repository

--> Customer is using the “Ask your repository” feature .--> There is no option to set Feature configuration to default the Repository .--> When they use “Ask your repository” it always points to wrong repo where CA is not configured. So ...
2 months ago in Content Navigator Not under consideration

Native Deployment scheduling feature within IBM Decision Center

We recommend introducing a native deployment scheduling feature within IBM Decision Center. This capability would allow business users to define a specific date and time for deploying rule changes to the Decision Server without requiring external ...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Provide ability to save Audit logs in Database

Currently, audit logs are being stored in the audit‑logs PVC. Please provide the capability to store audit logs directly in a database. We need a feature that allows CP4BA audit logs to be written directly to a database rather than only to persist...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Not under consideration