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

    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...
    25 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

    Official Helm Chart Support for IBM Cloud Pak Workflow Process Services (wfps)

    Provide Official Helm Chart Support for Cloud Pak Workflow Process Services (wfps)Our organization's current deployment and lifecycle management practices for IBM Cloud Pak Workflow Process Services (wfps) do not fully leverage the benefits of sta...
    6 months 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

    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 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

    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...
    3 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...
    9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 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...
    3 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...
    about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

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