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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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Move variable between input, output and private

Please add functionality to move variable from input, output and private to input, output, input and output (at the same time) or to private.
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

To support installing multiple TOS with operator for baw container version

For case management, the case solution max property number is limited by database table max support column number, e.g. Oracle table max column is 1000. In our current situation, a case solution usually has hundreds properties, then one TOS can on...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Same visibility options for CV in CV like in Coach

When configuring Coach View visibility in Coach, there are 3 sources: Value, Rule and Script. There should be the same sources when configuring Coach View inside another Coach View.
almost 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Support ODM Rule Designer on MacOS

After upgrading to ODM 8.10.2, found out that RuleFlows and Decision Tables do not work on MacOS. So the recommended solution is to either use Decision Center or Windows VM to make changes. We would like for IBM to make the same functionality work...
about 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Delivered

Connect to Terminal 3270 with TLS Protocol

Currently, the "Connect to Terminal" command does not accept any security protocol during the connection. It was informed by IBM Support that this feature never existed, but now a customer using Terminals with TLS protocol has been found. So if th...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

IBM's official product description documents should be translated in to Japanese

Japanese people face a high hurdle in understanding a product manual in English, which results in lower customer satisfaction. Even though the product introduction website is translated, the product manual is not translated, which causes the produ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Delivered

log4j 1.x jar's end of support dates passed. Move jar versions to 2.15 and above

When working with recently vulnerabilities(CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-4104) on log4j jars, identified BAW product uses older version 1.x jars and these are passed end of support dates. Wells Fargo has a corporate directive to mitigate the CVE(CVE-20...
about 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Compatibility mode on MS Edge for IE11 for IBM RPA

Microsoft announced Microsoft IE 11 EOS in June 15th, 2022. However, they provide Edge IE compatibility mode as alternative solution for IE11 customers. Some of the Brazilian .gov websites only support its access through IE11, and due to that, it ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Use of Deaja Viewer by default when viewing a document in a task

We are using CP4A 20.0.3 and it is not possible to use by default the Daeja Viewer to open the Document Preview in a case client task. This means that file viewing / downloading relies on the browser configuration and the behavior is not consisten...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

S3 Integration

Configuring S3 bucket as a storage device requires S3 AccessKey and ID to be configured in the wizard. Having static password leads to data at risk. In AWS, S3 can be accessed either by using the accesskey or by using role based authentication. In...
about 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Delivered