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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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Pinned ideas

PINNED Filter UI enables having OR between filters (not just AND)
Users want to filter cases for client1 OR client2. They can't without creating a custom filter with javascript -- which they don't like at all
PINNED SQL statements in Dashboard Widgets
I think using SQL statements in widgets would be great to leverage the entire potential of the data uploaded to IBM Process Mining. Lots of important and helpful information cannot be displayed today as it's only SQL-like. I don't think that using...

All ideas

SOP section of Library

Similar to the Policy section there should be an SOP section where you can add details about the SOP and then connect the SOPs to your process/activities. Being able to connect it like Policy means that you can reuse them instead of just pasting t...
13 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Allow to build rulesets with the same artifacts name in different projects of a decision service.

If the 2 ruleflows or 2 rules have the same name in the same package in different projects we need to be able to include those in the ruleset generated. Adding the project name as a folder path would allow for being able to distinguish all artifac...
13 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

Ability to specify a custom Flyway migration location for a specific KIE module

We need to replace a PostgreSQL migration distributed by the following BAMOE 9.5.2 module: org.jbpm:jbpm-addons-usertask-storage-jpa:9.5.2-ibm-0002 The module provides its KIE Flyway configuration through: META-INF/kie-flyway.properties For Postgr...
13 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x 0 Under review

Provide a supported option to suppress or sanitize Java exception class names returned in BAW REST API exceptionType responses

Environment Product: IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) Version: 26.0.0 Database: DB2 Operating System: RHEL Deployment: WebSphere Application Server-based BAW environment Affected interface: BAW Workflow REST API (/rest/bpm/wle/v1/...) Issue ...
13 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

CSV Injection Vulnerability

The application allows user-controllable data to be exported in CSV format without proper sanitization. Fields containing user input, such as names, descriptions, or comments, are directly embedded into CSV cells. When opened in spreadsheet applic...
14 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Submitted

Support for nested projects in Rule Designer

There are issues regarding nested projects with the following workspace layout: /workspace -> Eclipse/Rule Designer workspace /parent -> Parent project /ruleproject -> Main rule project When existing projects (parent) are imported from a ...
25 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

CORS Policy Issue in BAW with External CPE and Content Navigator to handle multiple allow origins

The ICN URL to be accessible via GTM, LTM, and also via individual node URLs. At present, the product-provided CaseCors.jar appears to have a limitation in handling multiple origins. In addition to the CORS concern, we would like to highlight the ...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Submitted

CP4BA / WfPS Dependency on Broad Wildcard Certificates – Request for Supported Alternatives

We understand that certain IBM CloudPak components may benefit from the use of wildcard certificates such as *.svc.cluster.local and *.api to simplify certificate management for dynamically created services and routes. However, our organization's ...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Under review

Get BAI to be more flexible in the naming settings

Context and Requirements Our organization has a convention of exposing all external services on the bdapps.* domain rather than apps.*. On our namespaces, we add the label type=bdapps, which causes the “bdapps” router to be used instead of the def...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Submitted

Improve error messages on file upload

When a file upload fails, the product currently shows a generic "Generic Error" with no detail about what went wrong. This makes it hard for customers to diagnose and fix the problem on their own, and it drives avoidable support requests. We shoul...
3 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration