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,

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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Cloud Pak for Business Automation

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

    Support direct upgrade from CP4BA 24.0.1 to CP4BA 26.0.0 on Openshift

    We moved to BAW 24.0.1 traditional because it was the first version in which process instance migration from traditional to containers was possible. Since we wanted to move to containers quickly we did not wait for the 25.0.0 release. After we hav...
    30 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

    Remove hardcoded Operator-node affinity for temporary setup Pods to support standard OpenShift workload isolation

    Summary of the Enhancement Modify the CP4BA Operator so that it no longer hardcodes node affinity to its own host node when deploying temporary pods (used for PVC mounting and JDBC driver updates) into the operand namespace. The temporary pod shou...
    4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    To Have a BPM REST API that gets the environment variables from a Toolkit

    2. Feature Design of Get REST API https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/25.0.0?topic=variables-get to get the environment variable from a Toolkit using the following Get request: GET /rest/bpm/wle/v1/system/env/variable?processA...
    23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 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...
    5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Enable fetching of oidc access_token from zen/foundational services to use for authenticating downstream services.

    It is useful because it would enable us to authentienticate downstream services (BAW external services) with access_token generated from OIDC flow (and ideally compatible with this: Invoking CP4BA APIs using custom authentication tokens). From BAW...
    about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Change the need for matching SQL ID and Schema Name in SQL Server

    As per the CP4BA documentation, “the default schema name that is associated with a user must be the same as the username” (Reference: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/25.0.0?topic=scripts-creating-sql-server-database). We a...
    19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Proactive Queue(DefEventDestination) Depth Monitoring and Early Warning for CP4BA-BAW in liberty logs

    After enabling BAI in a CP4BA production environment, we experienced a production outage due to a backend JMS queue reaching its maximum configured depth (50,000 messages). Once the limit was reached, event processing stalled, impacting business w...
    19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Online Backup of CP4BA deployment

    Currently we cannot perform online backup in CP4BA, We have Fusion recipes but those are not taking complete backup of the CP4BA namespace. It will be great if online backup of CP4BA namespace can be made possible. The online backup tool for Cp4BA...
    about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Future consideration

    IBM CP4BA (CPfs) should define a path to move from Embedded Postgres to External Postgres

    Clients that started with the Embedded Postgres database for CPfs features want to move to an External Postgres database for improvements on maintainability & servicability. According to current documentation, only new environments can be crea...
    17 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

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