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

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    API to get user IP /true client IP, user_agent, Session id/Public IP

    Cybersecurity and defence teams are making it mandatory to log below details for each processApp when user tries to login, user performs some action in the application. Few details are available but details like True client IP, user_agent, session...
    4 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Bai event format configuration to have the processAppAcronym in the messages in IBM Business Automation Workflow

    We would like to have the processAppAcronym in the messages in the future. Either as a default value or configurable to configure the events to contain the "processAppAcronym" - a short unique identifier for a processApp. We need it to distribute ...
    10 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Improve IBM BPM CoachFlow logging by surfacing missing business object references and node execution metadata in a structured, user-friendly format.

    The current console logs in IBM BPM CoachFlow provide raw execution traces and warnings, such as missing references in business objects and node-level execution details. However, these logs are verbose and lack contextual grouping, making it diffi...
    21 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Support for presenting client certificates during outbound HTTPS calls does not exist.

    Currently, Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) does not provide a straightforward mechanism to configure mutual SSL (client certificate authentication) for outbound HTTP/SOAP web service calls. This limitation impacts customers who need to s...
    28 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Ability to Configure Custom Starting Values for Instance IDs and Task IDs

    Request for a configurable option that allows IBM BAW administrators to define custom initial values for Workflow Instance IDs and Task IDs. In the current IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) implementation, all environments start generating In...
    about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    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...
    about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    make the "at risk" calculations configurable in process portal

    Current behavior In Process Portal, the At Risk indicator is currently calculated using the following logic: At Risk = (Average Historical Time to Complete Task + Current Elapsed Time) > Task Due Date This approach depends on historical average...
    about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Enhance the critical path calculation for a process with "exclusive gateway" from adhoc subprocess

    We got an issue after upgrading BAW from 21.0.3.1 to 24.0.0, that the Batch Modify button in Process Performance Dashboard shows disabled. Based on the investigation with BAW Dev Team, it seems specific to those type of processes with "exclusive g...
    about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Expanding the Number of Snapshots and Task Instances in BAW in CP4BA

    Currently, in Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA), the BAW component has a default snapshot limit of 110 and an instance limit of 1,800,000. This value is configurable and can be increased manually, but when these modifications are made, per...
    about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

    Enable native support for arrays of arrays (nested arrays) within IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) Business Objects.

    This enhancement would allow BAW's JSON Data Handler to directly process and bind JSON arrays containing other arrays (e.g., "productList": [ [ {...}, {...} ], [ {...} ] ]) to corresponding Business Object structures. It is useful because it elimi...
    about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

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