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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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Business Automation Workflow

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An environment that only has ICN configured with Kerberos SSO, while everything is not configured with Kerberos SSO.

This will be useful for customer that wants to have an environment where ICN to be configured with Kerberos SSO and other products like BAW and CPE can be configured with other authentication methods such as basic authentication.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Not under consideration

Changeable export data encoding

Customer is using “Data export” in the UI toolkit.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/20.x?topic=toolkit-data-export They use this to export table data as csv. They want to change the character encoding of the output csv. As far as I look into, the da...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Support Dynamic Event Framework on BAW standalone container without BAI

This is the feature currently support on VM version, we need some way to get the events from BAW while we can't use BAI as it only support on Openshift
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

About add new feature of BAW to fix this data type issue (>14 digits)

Dear team, We used control decimal in Toolket UI of BPM and we knew the reason for the error is enter too bigger than the allowed limitation 90000000000000. We are a customer in Vietnam, using Vietnam Dong, 1 USD ~ 24,000 VND, so We need a numb...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Simplified REST calling from service flows

To be able to call a backend from a process application, you either need to define the backend as a server in your process application, or create java classes that you pipe your calls through. It would be great if the Javascript-serverside-api had...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

REST API Constraint

Only GET Methods can be developed with Exposed Rest APIs (APIs opened from BPM to external systems). HTTP methods such as PUT, POST,DELETE should also be added here.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Restricting access to Process Instance data for Admin User

Dear Team, There is a requirement in our organization to restrict access of Process Instance data to only users involved in the process. From Process Inspector, an admin (tw_admin) user can view/edit the data of the any process instance by search...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow only single session logon

Banking customer has security requirement that allow only single logon to the web based system. The application must not accept / allow concurrent login more than 1 session to reduce security beaches. Currently BAW traditional and container allow ...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

UserInfoCache reset mechanism should be optimized

Every time after change FullName parameter in AD system calls reset of UserInfoCache. This operation generates thousands of DB queries (select t0.USER_ID,t0.USER_NAME,t0.FULL_NAME,t0.PROVIDER,t0.USER_STATE,t0.LAST_STATE_MODIFIED from LSW_USR_XREF ...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Bulk operation(s) for GDPR deletion of users

Currently the GDPR deletion of users can only be accomplished one-user-at-a-time: "Deleting personal data of BPM users" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSFPJS_8.6.0/com.ibm.wbpm.main.doc/topics/gdpr_delete_personal_data.html We would like the abilit...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration