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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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Business Automation Workflow

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

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 ...
24 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Revert input/output variable mapping to classic view to remove extra steps

Users are facing challenges with BAW 23.0.1's new variable mapping process, finding it cumbersome due to extra clicks and complexity, especially in complex projects. The classic mapping offered quicker, more straightforward access to variable usag...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 6 Planned for future release

Enhance - Ability to have environment variables per baw server instance scoped

Possible environment variables baw server instance scoped instead of application-scoped, to allow for easier update of external services and others (endpoints, users, password, etc.) If the customer has more than 300 process apps which have a few ...
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Reset the overdue flag upon changing the custom data field without leaving and coming back to the same step

When the custom date field is updated to future date for overdue cases from BAW/Case Manager screen, the overdue flag should reset and recalculate the deadline, without moving the worktime from its current step.
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Application is vulnerable to cross site scripting (XSS)

While we are creating group on BPM process admin URL at that time it is taking special characters as input. we want to block those special character like {}[]()!@#$%^&* Risk : cross-site scripting (xss) attacks are a type of injection, in whic...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Add support for MS SQL Server and/or AWS RDS for Business Automation Workflow (BAW) on Containers (not CP4BA).

We are an IBM partner, and our long-term IBM Case Management Federal customer is migrating from IBM Case Manager on a Linux environment to Containers on AWS. The backend database is MS SQL Server. Currently, BAW on Containers does not support MS S...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Enabling Stage names translation in Case Client of IBM BAW

Localizing the stages name into a different locale (for eg, Arabic) is currently not possible in IBM BAW. Even tying to localize the stage names using custom string approach ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/24.x?topic=applications-translating-cus...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Is a defect

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...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Functionality already exists

Add support for AWS Managed Microsoft AD service for Business Automation Workflow (BAW) on Containers (not CP4BA).

We are an IBM partner, and our long-term IBM Case Management Federal customer is migrating from IBM Case Manager, users in AWS Managed Microsoft AD service, on a Linux environment to Containers on AWS. The customer does not need the full BAW capab...
20 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Submitted