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

Need IBM to include AWS managed database services as supported software

We need IBM to include at least one of AWS managed database services as supported software. We are planning for installing CP4BA, WfPS/BAW on AWS Rosa, and we would like to use an AWS managed database for the WfPS/BAW databases. IBM should include...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

CP4BA / WfPS Dependency on Broad Wildcard Certificates – Request for Supported Alternatives

We understand that certain IBM CloudPak components may benefit from the use of wildcard certificates such as *.svc.cluster.local and *.api to simplify certificate management for dynamically created services and routes. However, our organization's ...
26 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

Allow CPD app url to be embedded in the other Web app through iframe

We have internal web application which embeds the CPD ICN URL in their app within iframe. When accessing the icn url the iframe is blocking the cpd url which is enabled with SSO.It is understood that blocking happens due to Content-Security-Policy...
28 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

BAI should support Reporting features of Opensearch Dashboard

When the BPC dashboard features are not sufficient, clients are free to connect Opensearch Dashboard (according to the docs). A very common requirement for Opensearch Dashboard is the reporting feature, which e.g. allows the client to download rep...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

Provide an option to opt out of auto-renewal or at minimum introduce advance notification and control over CP4BA certificate/licensing auto-renewal

An unexpected certificate auto-renewal event required immediate intervention and multiple recovery steps. While infrequent, the lack of prior notification and visibility makes the process unpredictable. Customers need the ability to plan renewal d...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

Enterprise requires the use of organization-approved, custom CA‑signed certificates. Add support in the CP4BA Operator to allow customers to configure custom signed leaf certificates for the OpenSearch route, without requiring the creation of a custom Issuer. 

When running CP4BA in a public cloud environment need to securely connect from on‑premises systems to OpenSearch. Many enterprises require the use of organization-approved, custom CA‑signed certificates to meet internal security and compliance sta...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

Formal AD LDS (aka ADAM) support for CP4BA

CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: In terms of supported LDAPs for CP4BA, documentation states that "Options include IBM Security® Directory Server, Microsoft Active Directory, a PingDirectory, and a custom directory" and it provides examples (here https://ww...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

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...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

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...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

Dangerous CSP policy in the application

We recommend using nonce ( https://content-security-policy.com/nonce/ ) or hash ( https://content-security-policy.com/hash/ ) mechanisms for scripts loaded by the application.
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

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