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:

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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    ODM operator restart pods logic updated

    Currently the ODM operator restarts the ODM pods by deleting them based on a label. This is done regularly when internal cert rotation happens on the Cloud Pak. I propose that a new task be used instead that initiates a deployment rollout instead....
    3 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...
    3 months 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...
    11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Future consideration

    Allow CP4BA Admins to add a Custom PVC to the BAW Authoring and Runtime

    We have deployed CP4BA v25 - BAW in our OpenShift cluster. As of now we are using the file path that is mounted by default (/opt/ibm/bawfile) to store and access BAW application specific configurations. We would like to add additional paths (custo...
    27 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    inject third-party IAST agents (specifically Black Duck) into the BAW/BPM containers within Cloud Pak for Business Automation

    Our Information Security team has a requirement to integrate Synopsys Black Duck IAST (Interactive Application Security Testing) with our current IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation environment to scan our BPM workflows and applications. We to p...
    13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Integration of CP4BA with GitLab and Jenkins

    IBM Team, While the IBM documentation currently references GitHub and JFrog as supported integrations, there is a clear need to extend support to include Jenkins and GitLab. These tools are widely adopted in enterprise CI/CD pipelines, and their i...
    15 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Customizing BAStudio (100custom.xml) similar to BAW Runtime with a secret

    IBM BAW Team, Including a large number of custom values directly in the CR YAML via the bastudio_custom_xml is not very efficient and increases the risk of errors if the entries are not placed correctly. The proposed idea is to separate these valu...
    15 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Presently in Cloud Pak for Business Automation - there is provision of configuring only 1 LDAP server - need to have a failover/HA configuration available

    For any customer environment, would there be any outage on LDAP server -however, small it maybe (even less than 2 mins) or even it could be a loss of connectivity to LDAP server for a tiny period (less than 1 min) - the entire environment become u...
    7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

    Support for Tracability, OpenTelemetry and Instrumentation to be able to use tools like Jaeger,Kiali

    There is need for tracing global transaction/request ID that starts with the platform UI and gets propagated to the various layers/components of CP4BA so that one can follow the transaction. Our clients are using OpenShift Service Mesh ( Istio ) a...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Not under consideration

    Support for Service Mesh/ISTIO on OpenShift for CP4BA

    Support for Service Mesh in CP4BA would be very helpful in enterprise installations. ISTIO is very popular and often this is a required by our clients. currently CP4BA does not support Service Mesh. This is helpful for: - mTLS (Mutual Transport La...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

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