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,

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  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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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...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Future consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Online Backup and Restore

Availability of online backup and restore features and capabilities in Cloud Pak for Business Automation
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Future consideration

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

Ability to use cp4a-prerequisites.sh for multiple runtime instances

Deploying multiple runtime instances in single namespace would be a common use case for CPBA - BAW runtime environments. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0.0?topic=cbawrws-optional-configuring-multiple-instances-business...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to specify multiple database types when using scripted installation

CP4BA supports multiple database types (e.g. Oracle, DB2, etc.), but some applications (e.g. ADP) do not support all database types. My customer mandates Oracle where possible. This means that when installing both FNCM and ADP, we have to use Orac...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Unify approaches in generated SQL files in preparation phase

Is there a reason why the SQLs for capabilities don't have a unified structure for all components? https://github.com/icp4a/cert-kubernetes/blob/24.0.0-IF003/scripts/helper/database-sql/postgresql/baa/create-baa-dbscript.sh#L41 CREATE USER ${dbuse...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow Standalone Installation of BAI on AKS or EKS (CNCF) similar to BAW and FNCM.

Organizations are looking to install BAI without the need of CloudPak or OpenShift to avoid additional overhead and licensing costs. It will be nice to have BAI installation on CNCF Kubernetes along with BAW and FNCM.
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Request for official list to provide detailed information on container images versions, file sizes, digest names in the latest or future versions of CP4BA, FNCM Standalone containers or on-prem CPE and client applications

Government agencies require itemized list of software applications for purchase approval purposes. The system is called TRM. Technical Reference Model (TRM) is a set of categorized software and non-commodity hardware products that is the starting ...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

dynamic groups of users in IAM of cp4ba

create a dynamic user group to automatically add users to the IAM as they are created in the AD
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

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