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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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Remove Unafe-inline and unsafe-eval as required directivies in content secuity Policy Header

As Standard practice is advised to have content security header present in the response and not to have unsafe-inline or unsafe-eval directives present in this header values These unsafe directives could allow malicious script code to be included ...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Documented REST API for updating EPV on branch level like it is available for ENV variables

Please add the POST /std/bpm/containers/{container}/branches/{branch}/epvs to the OAS documentation at /bpm/explorer/?url=/bas/ops/docs#/Environment%20VariableI saw it is already used in Process Admin for Tip branch EPV setting but it is not docum...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Eliminate tablespace information for postgres in BAW on Containers

Customer: Discover Financial Services Product: Business Automation Workflow on Containers version : 22.x onwards DFS is using RDS Postgres Operator on AWS so we are not using the traditional postgres version, Cleanup is needed to keep required val...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Predefined schema creation setup in BAW on Containers

Customer: Discover Financial Services Product: Business Automation Workflow on Containers version : 22.x onwards DFS Postgres Design Pattern is to have schema creation is predefined step and should be created in advance with proper naming conventi...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Support additionalProperties in OpenAPI Spec

additionalProperties in the OpenAPI spec is not currently supported in BAW per the following documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/22.x?topic=30-restrictions-invoking-rest-api-service It would be very useful to have more of the OpenAPI sp...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Request For the WCAG 2.1 accessibility support for BAW , expecially the ‘out the box’ BAW coaches for example the Portal page

Hi BAW Product Dev. Team,Hope you are doing well Our key account - banking customer, have recently been conducting accessibly testing on the UI.They are testing against the WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards.They found that a small number of the ‘ou...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Finding toolkit references/usage in Process Application

We have several Process Applications in our environment with > 15 toolkit dependencies. When we want to upgrade or remove any unneeded toolkit dependencies, there is no efficient way to check whether a process application is referencing or usin...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Setting default Coach View for a Business Object type

It would be nice to be able to set default coach view for each business object. Something like associating files with program. If there are multiple coach views that have the same business object type as binding, user could choose which one would ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to Add DocuSign Action in Case Information Widget

Current Limitation: There is no direct way to access DocuSign actions within the Case workflow. Desired Behavior: Enable the addition of DocuSign actions within the Case Information Widget, allowing users to initiate DocuSign workflows directly fr...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Exception handling:: Client-side Human Task with attached UCA

Scenario: Process has Client-side Human Task with attached UCA. Once UCA is triggered, the task needs to be completed automatically. Issue: User is working with the Client-side Human Task -> UCA has been triggered -> User is not aware about ...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration