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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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Business Automation Workflow

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Directly Support OAuth when invoking a REST service

Currently to use OAuth when invoking a REST service, you must use JavaScript as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/23.x?topic=service-invoking-rest It would be very useful to have OAuth directly supported like basic auth and API Key ...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Coach - Drag and drop document in a task

When a user is in a coach to process a task, he can add a document using a popup window to browse his computer's content. In addition, the user wants to be able to add a document by doing a drag & drop in the document widget
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

IBM Integration Developer needs to be compatible with the latest version of Eclipse

IBM Integration Developer v20.0.0.2 is based on Eclipse 4.4. There are plug-ins for tools such as source control, etc. that customers use which require a version of Eclipse 4.5 and greater.
over 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

log4j 1.x jar's end of support dates passed. Move jar versions to 2.16 and above

We are using BPM version 8.6 and it never uses KCCI ear files . Not using KCC ear files is mitigation, but enterprise requires full remediation which is to upgrade to 2.16 or greater. Optum has a corporate directive to mitigate the CVE(CVE-2021-4...
almost 3 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Workplace integrates Case Client functionality

Now there are three portals: Portal, Workplace, and Case Client, which are very inconvenient for customers to use.Please integrate Case Client into Workplace, such as attached picture.When the user clicks "Case" in the picture, the case created by...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Upgrade Integration Designer Eclipse platform to enable support for plugins like Git, Maven, Gradle, Spring...

I was considering creating PMR cause it's serious blocker for modern development. We use AdvancedOnly deployment for running large BPEL solution with lots of Java code. IID Eclipse platform is now ancient Eclipse 3.6.3 (released 2011) and that mea...
almost 7 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

Case activity permissions need to be more precise

1. Case has many activities 2. Each activity corresponds to a different BPM process 3. Each activity (BPM) has its own permissions. To view the activity (BPM) instance, you must be the instance owner (initiator, participant), otherwise you have no...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

BPMoC Process Monitor does not allow user to select a certain node

When viewing the Process Monitor through the Process Admin console, the server is automatically selected for the user. However, there can be multiple servers that need to be viewed. The user has no way of selecting which server they want to view, ...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Add Execution Evaluator to Web PD

Execution Evaluator is currently available in the Desktop Process Designer but has been deprecated in Web Designer. With the release of BAW, Desktop Process Designer is going away with no replacement for the Execution Evaluator.
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Case Manager 5.3.3 Not updating security on deployment

When a case manager solution has users/permissions added to the role, and the security manifest is applied to the solution, these roles are not getting added/removed to/from the folder in the target object store : Root Folder\IBM Case Manager\Solu...
over 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered