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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

Migration path and documentation from CP4BA BAW 25 to BAW 26 on Container including both artifacts and runtime data.

Migration path and documentation for CP4BA BAW 25 to BAW 26 on Container including both artifacts and runtime data.
1 day ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Add a way to see which artifact where modified between two Snapshots

A client is collaborating with a larger team to migrate processes from their previous systems to BAW. As the amount of process to migrate is important, multiple developers are working in parallel, and also modifying the same toolkits/process apps ...
6 days ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

IDOR Vulnerability

VAPT found a vulnerability that BPM session tokens of a user are not invalidated on logout. When another user logs in on the machine, and copies the session token of the previous user, they are able to re-use the FileNet URLs to access the documen...
11 days ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Support Export and Import of Individual Artifacts in BAW

IBM BAW currently provides export/import capabilities at the Process Application and Toolkit level. However, there are many situations where developers only need to share or move a single artifact, such as: Client-Side Human Service (CSHS) Service...
12 days ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

When opening the dashboard list via the Workplace app switcher, users cannot search, scroll, or view all available dashboards. Only a fixed, truncated list is shown with no indication that more exist.

When accessing the list of available dashboards via the app switcher (grid icon) in Workplace, it is not possible to search for a dashboard by name, nor to scroll through or confirm the full list of available dashboards. Only a limited, fixed numb...
12 days ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Synchronization of Process Portal User Preferences and Attributes across Federated Environments

Provide a mechanism to automatically synchronize Process Portal user preferences and profile attributes from the federated Process Portal host to all participating federated workflow servers. Example, when there's a federated topology like this: A...
13 days ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Provide Object Store Mapping Support During Deployment of Promoted Legacy Case Solutions from Workflow Center to Connected Workflow Servers

IBM Business Automation Workflow supports deployment of promoted legacy Case solutions from Workflow Center to connected Workflow Servers. During deployment, users can choose whether to install the snapshot; however, there is currently no option t...
13 days ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Automated bulk cleanup of task and process instances

There are some use cases for process applications that are used frequently and are very short lived, which quickly increase the count of completed process instances. BAW currently provides options to delete instances visually using Process Inspect...
26 days ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

ProcessPortal Logged in users count for CP4BA Product

We can support better prod env based on how many users in system. in traditional BAW we used below query to see number of users logged/active in processportal. in cp4ba v25 this table do not have any entries. This table is empty. how to monitor ac...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Modify the Task Details section of Process Portal to refresh without re-rendering.

This issue arises when using a Process Portal that is configured as the host federated portal. When that is the case, the Process Portal no longer relies on CometD for web messaging and instead refreshes at regular intervals, configured by the fed...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted