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).


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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 the link between the DB schema name and DB User, so that the DB Username can be changed

This is to allow for changes to be made to the DB Username and to prevent the validation step using BPMConfig.sh from failing when running DB commands.
9 days ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

CORS Policy Issue in BAW with External CPE and Content Navigator to handle multiple allow origins

The ICN URL to be accessible via GTM, LTM, and also via individual node URLs. At present, the product-provided CaseCors.jar appears to have a limitation in handling multiple origins. In addition to the CORS concern, we would like to highlight the ...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

When Case feature is the default feature for a desktop, 'Folder Filed In' document property should still be displayed in ICN browse feature.

This functionality is important for identifying documents that are not properly filed within the parent folder. Given that the workflow can be unpredictable at times, it provides a quick way for teams to locate and resolve document issues without ...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Concurrency control mechanism for saveSolutionSecurityManifest API.

This a client requirement. So, we decided to open an IBM support case, case No. TS022515266. As we heard from the IBM support, BAW does not provide application-level concurrency protection for this API. To prevent concurrent updates from causing c...
16 days ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Apache poi libraries are outdated in BAW 24.0.0

The Apache poi libraries used by the product introduce a class-conflict with the latest version of Apache poi we use in our development. We see this as a vulnerability and would like this to be addressed.
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Alternative way for solving CVE-2023-50959 in BAW.

In the context of CVE-2023-50959 which is solved by KI DT247523, we have a complex situation that cannot be solved with the two ECM services : ECM Document Authorization Service ECM Query Authorization Service Our security scan suggested to avoid ...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Search by process app name

Our development environment (BAW 21.x, BAW24.x Traditional) currently contains more than 40 process apps and approximately 90 toolkits. I am part of platform team and I do code review on these process app and toolkits. I have admins right and I se...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Possibility of starting JVM when ROS mode is enabled on Primary BAW host

Customer wanted to enable Read Only Stand By (ROS) mode on DR server and start the JVM. However, when they enabled the ROS mode and starting JVM was not successfully. They wanted this type of enhancement to use when they migrate from Db2 to Oracle...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

AD LDS support

for BAW deployment it seems that Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service is not officially supported while AD DS is. We need support also for AD LDS for installing BAW in italian police ai project.
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Update any red/green status indicators within the BAW UI application to improve accessibility.

Some users are unable to distinguish between red and green, making it difficult for them to interpret application status accurately. This is particularly impactful within the Event Manager Monitor in the Process Admin Console, but applies to any a...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

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