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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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Properties in Property Table should not be all required

When we use property table in the BAW case builder, we have optional properties, but the widget always make all properties required, it is not make sense.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Need exception handling for user without DisplayName, i.e., user list cannot be shown for reassigning case

Need exception handling for user without DisplayName, i.e., user list cannot be shown for reassigning case. In version v18, no issue even there is account without DisplayName but it is not working after upgrade to v19.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered

Do not present deactivated users as eligible for Task reassignment

Currently, Task reassignment can be performed through a number of UIs/Consoles. In some cases Users who are members of the Team that a Task was originally assigned to may have been deactivated. The UIs/Consoles that allow Task reassignment are not...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Delivered

Log4j Patching (IBM fix - IFPH42728)

We are planning to implement patch Affects versions 2.0 to 2.14.1 of Log4j patching at WAS infra level. But we are using Log4J version 1.2.16 in IID. So will the patch fix at WAS level work at IID Level too? what will be the impact on the IBM BAW ...
over 2 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...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

log4j 1.x jar's support ended. Move jar versions to 2.15 and above

We recently found out that BAW uses log4j 1.x version which is unsupported version. We understand that log4j1.x jars are used in the product not vulnerable CVE-2021-44228 and it is vulnerable to CVE-2021-4104 if JMSAppender feature is used. Howeve...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

Support Microsoft SQL Server versions for installation BAW on containers

BAW on containers not support sql server databases. Only db2, oracle and postgre.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 3 Delivered

log4j 1.x jar's end of support dates passed. Move jar versions to 2.15 and above

When working with recently vulnerabilities(CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-4104) on log4j jars, identified BAW product uses older version 1.x jars and these are passed end of support dates. Wells Fargo has a corporate directive to mitigate the CVE(CVE-20...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Delivered

让用户可以查看流程图

在传统BAW部署环境中,用户从ProcessPortal中可以查看流程图,并可以在流程图中看到流程走到哪个节点了。 但在Cloud Pak版本中,ProcessPortal、Workplace、工作仪表板中全部看不到。 这个功能,IBM应该继续使用,让用户的体验更好。
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 5 Delivered

The user account can choose which project area to access on the Case Builder/workflow Center

Issue: There is a default project area for each account so they can practically only update applications under single project area So we need the account can choose which project area to access the solution the Case Builder/workflow Center.
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Delivered