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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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Pinned ideas

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...
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

All ideas

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Add support for AWS Cognito 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...
17 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Use Azure Blob Immutable storage as a Fixed Content Device

Azure Blob storage is not listed as a Fixed Content Device in the Document Storage technote for FileNet Content Manager and IBM Content Foundation. ASA does not support immutable storage, so a CPE retention policy must be set up to match the Azure...
18 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

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18 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Submitted

Support deployment of IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) on WebSphere Application Server 9 (WAS 9)

A frequent situation in customer projects is a coexistence of WAS 9 (for FileNet/GraphQL) and WAS 8.5.x (for BAW).This creates unnecessary complexity in administration, maintenance, security patching, and operational governance. Enabling BAW on WA...
20 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Under review

IBM RPA - Web Recorder - Not able to download the extension file

We request that the Web Recorder.CRX file be added to the IBM Passport Advantage portal or included with the IBM RPA client installer. Currently, the Web Recorder extension is only available for installation via the Google Chrome Web Store. Howeve...
21 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Automate the cleanup of the console and messages logs created under the podname directories

Logs are created in /opt/ibm/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/logs for each pod. As pods are shutdown and restarted during kubernetes maintenance or other work, additional log directories are created, leaving the old directories in place. This requir...
21 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Using outdated JavaScript libraries

The application uses outdated JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities: AngularJS v1.8.4 CVE-2022-25844: Angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) CVE-2025-2336: AngularJS Incomplete Filtering of Special El...
21 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

Detailed error messages

The application should return generic error information to the user. Detailed error information should only be logged on the server side.
21 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Submitted

Excessive information disclosure by the IBM BAW diagnostic endpoint

It is recommended to restrict access to the /sync/api/configurations/ping endpoint to trusted IP addresses or administrative accounts only, or to disable it entirely in production environments if it is not operationally required.
21 days ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Dangerous CSP policy in the application

We recommend using nonce ( https://content-security-policy.com/nonce/ ) or hash ( https://content-security-policy.com/hash/ ) mechanisms for scripts loaded by the application.
21 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review