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

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Users inside the nested groups are unable to login unless they add the group directly

In an active directory group that have many other groups as members, the users inside the nested groups are unable to login unless they add the group directly.
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

WfPS (Workflow Process Services) Runtime should be integrated into the CP4BA Deployment scripts

Current versions of the cp4a-deployment.sh scripts (V25.0) list Workflow Process Services Authoring as a choice to select. WfPS Runtime however is not available as a selection. Documentation states https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSYHZ8_25.0.0/pdf/pdf...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Customizing IAF Routes urls for CP4BA in RHOCP

As we install the Cp4BA through Multi pattern operator in RHOCP, the product takes default Openshift console ingress to create all the routes, as the organization standard we have dedicated ingress route created for our Namespace to better manage ...
5 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...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

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 2 months 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 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

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 2 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

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

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