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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    Enforce safe XML element names for user-derived IDs in Datacap services (SavePluginFilterService or wTM)

    Datacap uses user IDs directly as XML element names. Because there is no validation or constraint on ID format, invalid XML names (numeric-only, spaces, symbols, etc.) break downstream processing from one of customer which has numerical user id. P...
    about 2 months ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

    JSON Support in Datacap

    Modern capture pipelines increasingly rely on JSON payloads (APIs, webhooks, ...). Today, handling JSON in Datacap requires custom scripts or brittle intermediates. Add native, high-performance JSON capabilities: Both Ingestion and Parsing
    about 2 months ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

    Single Sign On EOL

    The IBM Business central product LDAP integration is exclusively with Red Hat SSO. We've learned from Red Hat that this product will reach its end-of-life on June 30th We need to see if there are any other solutions like Azure Entra ID is availabl...
    6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Future consideration

    Datacap does not accept numeric value in username filter

    Datacap accept user ID in alpha-numeric and only numeric value is not accepted. This seems to be a design concern, since there is no validation or constraint on the format of the user ID, and this ID is directly used to define an XML element name,...
    7 months ago in Datacap 0 Under review

    Allow scheduling of Rule runner threads

    There may be times when you want certain tasks to only run during certain times - maybe off hours. It would be nice to either be able to configure threads to be enabled/disabled for set times instead of manually having to enable and disable. An ex...
    over 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

    Allow multiple uploads of the same document

    We have a business use case to allow one document to be uploaded to two different document classes. One document class has a subset of index information, but is viewable to a larger group. Our current solution is to scan the document in twice. Dat...
    about 2 years ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

    Rest WorkItemHandler that support OIDC

    In my business process, I need to call a REST web service that is secured by OpenID Connect. So I need to get a token from the autorization server first, then include the token in the header of the call to my webservice. We need a REST workItemHan...
    3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Future consideration

    Enable wTM service to process all request headers in lower case

    This request is to enable wTM API services to comply to the networking standards (RFC 2616 Sec 4.2 and RFC 7230 Sec 3.2) which state that HTTP headers are case insensitive. This issue was identified during our testing with IBM Cloud Load Balancer....
    over 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

    DataCap on Prem should work with wx.ai on prem.

    at the moment, Datacap is only supporting the cloud IAM to authenticate with wx.ai. since the IAM on prem in wx.ai works different, the request would be to allow for authenticating against on prem as well
    11 months ago in Datacap 0 Under review

    Support of Mysql 8.4

    The banking sector client has contacted us, stating that MySQL 8.0.22 will reach EOL by September 2025, and they wish to upgrade to MySQL 8.4, including PAM.
    3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Planned for future release

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