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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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Workflow Process Service support on CNCF - No routes needed

Customer's infrastructure does not support the usage of "Routes" to externalize product end points. Customer is deploying CP4BA - Workflow Process Service pattern. Be able to deploy Workflow Process Service addresses the limitation as it could be ...
4 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Enable Support for Passing webhookID as a Parameter in Capture Services Toolkit for ADP Integration

Currently, the capture-toolkit-1.0-master-full.jar does not allow passing a webhookID parameter when submitting documents to ADP. This forces all ADP callbacks to be sent to a single, static webhook URL in BAW, limiting flexibility for workflows t...
7 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

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...
17 days 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
21 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Future consideration

Capability to have JWT authentication for BPM REST Endpoints as provider for consumer applications

Capability to have JWT authentication for BPM REST Endpoints as provider for consumer applications. Currently it is Basic Authentication but since majority of the enterprise are on more robust authentication patterns such as JWT, it will make more...
4 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Missing track functionality from workflow center

Workflow Center currently miss base functionality that exist in Process Center, making Process Center a necessity from developers even though Workflow Center is far superior in performance. For example, in our environment Process Center takes more...
15 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

In BPM, we need to have details of last login of a user and feature to enable or disable user if last login is greater than 30 days

It is useful to sort out only active users frequently using MDM. We need a feature to enable or disable an LDAP user based on last login of LDAP user in application. We also need a feature to delete the LDAP user from MDM application. This feature...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Functionality already exists

Automate the ICN Update to the DBUpgrade.sh command run

Case number - TS018744340 This is required step 12 in DBUpgrade https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7175521 deployment_manager_profile/dbscripts/Upgrade/cell_name.deployment_environment_name/database_type/database_name.schema_name/upgradeSchema...
8 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

From a PE workflow UI, a user would like to be able to filter multiple work items in the In-baskets by entering multiple values at the same time (not one value at a time).

We have users looking to make their process more efficient, when looking up work items/tasks out of an inbox in content navigator. When in their inbox, they are trying to copy and paste in multiple properties out of a spreadsheet to bring up the t...
18 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists