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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

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Support for Self-Hosting Carbon Design Fonts in Process Admin console UI to Enable Air-Gapped or Restricted Environments

The downloading of the CSS fonts is documented in recent versions of BAW. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/24.0.x?topic=servers-accessing-process-admin-console Note: It is expected that when you access the Process Admin Console, it downloads the CS...
9 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Integrate Absence Management Features into IBM BAW

In complex and long running processes implemented with IBM BAW where many different workers are involved in activities a way of managing absence of workers and specific named substitutes for taking over the ongoing activities is needed. IBM BAW un...
9 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Allow a parameter to the Bulk Instance Details REST API method to only bring back the executionTree

We have situations where we need to move the token. The only place to get the token ids (that we have found) is the Bulk Instance Details method in the REST API. It brings back everything. We would like to have an option for the parts parameter to...
1 day ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Request for decimals to be displayed with trailing decimal value in Process Portal

The main issue is that in the Process Portal in the Table View when user has some columns which are decimals, then the values which are round (e.g. 100, 1000, 80, etc.) are display without trailing decimal value, while the ones which have trailing...
3 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

The BPMDeleteDurableMessages command should allow users to specify messages that have been consumed, not just a date range as it exists currently

As it stands the BPMDeleteDurableMessages command only allows you to specify a date cut-off for deleting durable messages. It should also give you the option to specify that you only wish to delete consumed messages. Right now there is no mechanis...
29 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Submitted

Support updating managed files via API call

We should be able to update managed files with an API call even if it is only restricted for use by admins. The only option is to update a managed file without deploying an app is with the command BPMUpdateFile, but I was told this is not supporte...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future 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 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Predefined nested sorting for inbasket

Load the inbaskets with pre defined nested sorting (More than 1 field) Allow users / admins to change the fields based on needs. Persist the nested sort after the filter
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

We need a password type for environmental variables

We would like a password type that obfuscates the password value for environmental variables. We have several services that we call with basic auth with a system user. Developers are not allowed to know production passwords. This means that we hav...
10 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Server-Side Validation for Read-Only Case Properties

The read-only setting for case properties in the Case client UI (runtime) is applied only at the view level and does not enforce restrictions at the backend Case Manager REST API level. The CaseManager API and CaseClient plugin service are designe...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Functionality already exists