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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Business Automation Workflow

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Request support for Oracle 23ai database for Business Automation Workflow

Business Automation Workflow does not currently support Oracle 23ai. This is important to customers currently on Oracle 19c, which will reach end of life in April 2026.
6 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to import / export saved searches

It'll be a very useful to provide "export / import" features around saved searches to enable re-usability.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

In WorkflowCentre, there is a requirement where process instance variables need to be updated based on events sent from external services.

Requirement where process instance variables need to be updated based on events sent from external services. For this, the event subprocess functionality can be used. However, when using Event subprocesses, the correlation variable picks up the va...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Have REST API for Deleting Process Instances also delete indexes for those processes

We use the DELETE method of /std/bpm/processes for our operational instance purge. We recently discovered that while the call removes the instances, it leaves behind the Process Portal Indexes and Task Indexes. The only way to clean those up curre...
3 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

There should be a feature to limit the number of workitems that can be created in a Case Client In-Basket.

There is pagination feature of maximum of 50 workitems per page in the In-basket. The performance of the In-Basket can be degraded when there are tens of thousands of workitems in the In-Basket. To improve the performance, there should be a limit ...
9 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Future consideration

Support JWT token authentication for BAW Container

Support JWT token verification for BAW Container On BAW VM version, TAI feature of Traditional WAS can be used for JWT token verification, need the same for BAW container version
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Support SSO SPNEGO web authentication for BAW container

Support SSO SPNEGO web authentication for BAW container
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

Provide mechanism to limit authorization for BAW OnCloud service accounts to specific BAW exposed REST Service endpoints

Currently when a service account is created in the BAW OnCloud instance, it has access to any out of the box REST endpoints or REST Service that is developed as part of a solution. It would be very beneficial if, when provisioning or after creatio...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Old BFM (BPEL) APIs available with valid and complete OpenAPI specifications on BAW swagger.

Currently BAW swagger only offers only BAW Process/Task API (OpenAPI standard) whereas BPEL, HTM and BFM are currently not available on BAW Swagger definition. With the enhancement customer can make use of the standard OpenAPI definition available...
about 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Remove Unafe-inline and unsafe-eval as required directivies in content secuity Policy Header

As Standard practice is advised to have content security header present in the response and not to have unsafe-inline or unsafe-eval directives present in this header values These unsafe directives could allow malicious script code to be included ...
about 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

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