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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).


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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:

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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,

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  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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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...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add ability to access the 'description' attribute from TWRole objects via the JSAPI

When creating BAW roles, we like to use naming conventions like [ProcessAppAcronym]_[ApplicationRole]_[RegionIdentifier] which could give us the following for example: VET_StandardsReview_Region1, VET_StandardsReview_Region2, VET_Manager_Region1, ...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

A configurable option or built-in behavior to automatically close document viewer tabs when their associated case is closed.

This feature is useful because it would streamline the user interface and reduce confusion for users who work with multiple documents within cases. Users who frequently open documents from a case management system would benefit, as it would create...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Determine file types by extension instead of mime type

We got to know that latest versions of BAW support file determination based on mime type instead of the extensions as it was in BAW V19 versions. and this has been clarified by IBM Support in PMR - TS019929377. Requesting the team to restore the f...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Allow asset sharing between BAW and BAA (Business Automation Application)

Customer (Hennepin County) developed BAA apps, including toolkits and templates. They would like to export the BAA artifacts and import them into BAW. Otherwise they will need to recode the same in both BAW and BAA.
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Fully enable BAW in the CP4BA to exploit EntraID

The CloudPak foundational services includes support for integration with EntraID, which allows for EntraID-integrated support of most of the BAW components. However, there are several documented known limitations here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/...
8 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Return "error" object in onError event handler for BAW Service Data Table UI component

The Service Call UI component in BAW returns an "error" object in the onError event handler so the developer has access to details about the error and can even display for the user, if desired. This request is simply to add the same for "error" ob...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Not under consideration

Option to disable 'ADVANCED COMPRESSION' on Case History store level even though the capaibility is available on Oracle DB server level.

Case History store automatically use function 'ADVANCED COMPRESSION' when it is available (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1097385). If the Case History store is configured to use an Oracle database and the Oracle server has ADVANCED compre...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability/Flexibility to Modify/Delete Existing Case Properties

To improve flexibility and usability, it would be beneficial to enhance the product’s ability to add or modify case properties even after solution deployment. Allowing modifications to existing properties directly within the solution would provide...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Future consideration