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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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Cloud Pak for Business Automation

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CP4BA Operator - Make it smarter and detect/resolve issues automatically

CP4BA operators ensure that pods are running, but they don't validate the health of the pods. We have recently gone live with some applications on CP4BA. On Oct. 14 we had a production outage after PVC zen-metastore-edb-1 was full. All users were ...
14 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Official support for dual-FQDN operation in CP4BA / Cloud Pak for Data (Zen Front Door): external user FQDN + internal service-to-service FQDN

Many regulated customers must separate end-user traffic from service-to-service traffic across security zones (e.g., Internet → DMZ vs. East-West inside the intranet). Today, Zen Front Door supports a single entry point. If we expose both an exter...
29 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

CP4BA Deployment Scripts should add option to configure Foundation (only)

The deployment scripts introduced with CP4BA have been a great step towards a reliable deployment experience. At least two use cases require that client configures the foundation pattern only: - Deployment of WfPS Workflow Process Services Runtime...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

CP4BA form factors should only install those operators required by selected capabilities

When installing any pattern of Cloud Pak, the deployment installs all operators, including those that explicitly cover functionalities not required by the selected capabilities. Similarly, when installing standalone versions of DBA products that r...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Support multiple MQ input queues for BAW runtime in CP4BA

Currently CP4BA BAW only supports one single input queue for all automations. We would like to have support for multiple queues. This makes it possible for each business line and business application to have responsible for its own queues, making ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

4X4DRIVE - A Digital Transformation

The 4x4 Drive Process App Design, a groundbreaking solution that leverages AI capabilities and IBM Automation tools to transform how enterprises streamline complex workflows and decision-making. AI-powered automation solution aimed at transforming...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

CP4BA on Power/Openshift has limited support for Storage. We need on a long run support for Storage Scale

When using our products on Power there are many limiations due to availability of products on Power or lack of testing/support.In our situation we would like to use DB2 and CP4BA in combination with one and only one storage provider. While Storage...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

CP4BA - WAPT08: Improper Error Handling (Have 2 Configurations to limit very technical errors with general errors in product overall (UI, Logs))

We received a pentest reports and one of the items related to product technical errors, With Ticket #TS020182676 And Based On This I Think it will be a good idea to add 2 configurations One related to errors reported to end user in client side (Br...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Integrating Okta with CP4BA using SCIM should be supported in case management

There is a known limitation in CP4BA that management case solutions and applications are not supported when integrating with OKTA using SCIM. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0.0?topic=notes-known-limitations#concept_gmf...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

A command for applying changes to existing secrets created from files.

There dosn't seem to be any command for applying changes to existing secrets created from files. A workaround could be: 1. create new secret with the changed file 2. change reference to secret in CR (lombardi_custom_xml_secret_name) 3. apply chang...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted