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,

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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Include System-Executed Tasks in BAI Events for ML Training

The Machine Learning component in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) relies on task event data from Business Automation Insights (BAI) to train the Next Best Task (NBT) model. Currently, system-executed tasks (e.g., those completed by the Auto...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

Update Security Folder when a document is moved in Navigator

We have a document entry template for Navigator that has the option to inherit from folder set. When the document is added, this works fine. If a new folder is created and the document moved, the document retains the old folder as the security par...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

CP4BA front door (Zen) does not natively honor or accept tokens provided directly by external IdPs

Our partner applications consume CP4BA REST APIs to support key business functionalities. Currently, these partner applications authenticate using tokens issued by external Identity Providers (IdPs), such as PingFederate, and send these tokens to ...
20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

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 ...
24 days ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Prioritization of machines/processes

Prioritizing machines/processes to avoid the need for manual rescheduling of executions.
about 1 month ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

IBM FileNet Content Engine Audit Definition filter for Get Content Event

Hello, I am trying to enable a filter expression for an Audit Definition for the Get Content Event. We currently have auditing enabled in ACCE for the document class. Now we would like to add a filter expression to save only events related to busi...
2 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other Submitted

Update any red/green status indicators within the BAW UI application to improve accessibility.

Some users are unable to distinguish between red and green, making it difficult for them to interpret application status accurately. This is particularly impactful within the Event Manager Monitor in the Process Admin Console, but applies to any a...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Implement a Custom NFS / PVC Mount (/ecmconfig) - for cpe-deploy and navigator deploy configuration files

As we move to CP4BA, our Team needs to deploy ICN plugin and Code Module Configuration files in CP4BA Navigator and CPE Deploy pods. The purpose of this request is to attain support for WestPac to create a Custom PVC / NFS share (/ecmconfig) for s...
3 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other Submitted

Bai event format configuration to have the processAppAcronym in the messages in IBM Business Automation Workflow

We would like to have the processAppAcronym in the messages in the future. Either as a default value or configurable to configure the events to contain the "processAppAcronym" - a short unique identifier for a processApp. We need it to distribute ...
5 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Ability to control executions on RPA Launcher

When a bot gets stuck, hangs, or encounters unexpected behavior during execution, users have no option to pause or terminate the bot from the Launcher UI. This idea is to add the options for Stopping/Pausing a bot executed through Launcher.
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

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