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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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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...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Add possibility of Customization of filebeat.yml

Hello It looks like that possibilty of the configuration of filebeat is minimal, only enable it by define filebeat-output.yml and add external output. It is not possible customization of filebeat.yml file by adding aditional processors for logs pa...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Preferred login/skip_pref_login=true issue

The skip_pref_login parameter is currently functioning as expected. However, the login flow could be improved so that the skip flag persists until the user successfully logs in or explicitly navigates away.
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

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...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Readiness and Liveness Probe failures should show detailed explanation about issues at info level logs

Readiness and Liveness Probe failures should show detailed explanation at info level logs, It should show why it is failing/what component of that check is failing? etc. This must be implemented on all CP4BA deployments and stateful sets. But it i...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Add a special marker and disable manual user addition for the tw_allusers group in Process Admin Console of BAW

Currently, the tw_allusers group in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) is managed automatically by the system. All active users are automatically added to this group, and manual addition is unnecessary and misleading. However, the PAC interfac...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Enhancement Request: Support for Viewing Large Excel Documents in IBM Content Navigator 3.1.0 (CP4BA 24.0.0.x)

Summary: Requesting enhanced support for previewing large Excel (.xlsx) documents within IBM Content Navigator using the Daeja ViewONE viewer. Problem / Business Need Currently, large Excel documents do not render properly in ICN using Daeja ViewO...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Have a configurable “Service unavailable” page for CP4BA components, which are currently unavailable, instead of the “Bad Gateway” error page.

Please find the detailed description of the scenario which we encountered recently. Business Justification: The “Bad Gateway” page does not provide users with meaningful information when a service is unavailable. A customized “Service Unavailable”...
18 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

CP4BA should allow script-free updates (IFIX) to allow for automation using ArgoCD e.a.

We manage environments using ArgoCD in order to automate steps to reduce effort and risk of updates. Until CP4BA 22.0.2 , IFIX installations were done by manually applying YAML files, which was easily ported into GitOps automation for ArtgoCD.In C...
12 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Users inside the nested groups are unable to login unless they add the group directly

In an active directory group that have many other groups as members, the users inside the nested groups are unable to login unless they add the group directly.
24 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted