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

Remove Spring 5 from BAW Advanced (ASAP)

Spring 5 brings known security vulnerabilities and is incompatible with the enterprise architectures of many of our clients. Dependency on Spring (now out of support by the community) should be completely removed or at least a supported version (a...
26 days ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

wfpsRuntime should expose Prometheus metrics for monitoring

CP4BA monitoring can happen through Prometheus ( doc ). This is not currently implemented for wpfsRuntime. Getting a full view for the complete stack is essential for effective operations. Therefore, also Workflow Process Services Runtime should e...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Spring Upgrade to 6+ or remove Spring

We have security vulnerabilities with current Spring version used in BAW Automation Workflow. Our goal is to have Spring Upgrade to 6+ or remove Spring
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

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 ...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Support offsetting processInstanceId on new cp4ba/baw/wfps installations.

We are migrating from TWAS BAW to CP4BA and duplicate ProcessInstanceID (PIID)'s will become an issue for us. We use this ID many places in systems external to BAW and in custom database tables. And it will be a huge and risky change to support th...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Support deployment of IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) on WebSphere Application Server 9 (WAS 9)

A frequent situation in customer projects is a coexistence of WAS 9 (for FileNet/GraphQL) and WAS 8.5.x (for BAW).This creates unnecessary complexity in administration, maintenance, security patching, and operational governance. Enabling BAW on WA...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Using outdated JavaScript libraries

The application uses outdated JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities: AngularJS v1.8.4 CVE-2022-25844: Angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) CVE-2025-2336: AngularJS Incomplete Filtering of Special El...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Excessive information disclosure by the IBM BAW diagnostic endpoint

It is recommended to restrict access to the /sync/api/configurations/ping endpoint to trusted IP addresses or administrative accounts only, or to disable it entirely in production environments if it is not operationally required.
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Rediscover option for external services

If an external service is created based on the discovery of a Java, REST, or Web Service, a rediscover button is essential. This button would enable the updating of the methods associated with that service or defined object structure without the n...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

Customizing BAStudio (100custom.xml) similar to BAW Runtime with a secret

IBM BAW Team, Including a large number of custom values directly in the CR YAML via the bastudio_custom_xml is not very efficient and increases the risk of errors if the entries are not placed correctly. The proposed idea is to separate these valu...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Future consideration

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