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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I see we can send the image to the models and get the extraction rather sending the OCR page text to watsonx.ai models. I see better accuracy for the terrible handwritten documents

I see we can send the image to the models and get the extraction rather sending the OCR page text to watsonx.ai models. I see better accuracy for the terrible handwritten documents
over 1 year ago in Datacap Future consideration

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 ...
4 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Allow users of persistence addons for Kogito to specify the schema used

Right now the JDBC code in the persistence addons has SQL statements that do not specify the schema. Suppose you have multiple projects that use persistence, and use the IBM proposed setup of having one database with different schema for each proj...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x Planned for future release

Configuration updates or certificate renewals cause pods to restart following a rolling recycling strategy

Please refer to TS021723214 and TS021609280. As documented in TS021609280, when a configuration change is applied—such as updating the transaction timeout XML in /opt/ibm/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/configDropins/overrides—all CPE pods restart s...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Future consideration

Support Export and Import of Individual Artifacts in BAW

IBM BAW currently provides export/import capabilities at the Process Application and Toolkit level. However, there are many situations where developers only need to share or move a single artifact, such as: Client-Side Human Service (CSHS) Service...
12 days ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

When opening the dashboard list via the Workplace app switcher, users cannot search, scroll, or view all available dashboards. Only a fixed, truncated list is shown with no indication that more exist.

When accessing the list of available dashboards via the app switcher (grid icon) in Workplace, it is not possible to search for a dashboard by name, nor to scroll through or confirm the full list of available dashboards. Only a limited, fixed numb...
12 days ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Cp4ba Product related feture request

In traditional IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW), administrators can monitor the health status of processes and services through the Process Monitor tab in the Process Admin Console for each jvm in cluster. This capability provides a centrali...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Future consideration

Glossary Bulk Delete Feature

Currently, there is no option to bulk delete a glossary item that is in use. If a glossary value is referenced across multiple process flows and activities. For example, used 100 times across 20 processes, the administrators must manually navigate...
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

Remove the link between the DB schema name and DB User, so that the DB Username can be changed

This is to allow for changes to be made to the DB Username and to prevent the validation step using BPMConfig.sh from failing when running DB commands.
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

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...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

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