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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

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Update Container Reference Architecture for CP4BA.

Our existing reference architecture for our container platform based CP4BA is 2 years old. Reference architecture is viewed as "table steaks" in terms of selling software. It is requested in EVERY RFP/RFI. It is often requested/required by our cli...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Delivered

CP4BA support for ROSA HCP

In Mapfre we have the possibility to deploy CP4BA in ROSA, but it would be more convenient for the client to use ROSA HCP, so we are asking to provide official support for ROSA HCP in CP4BA.
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Delivered

Include BPM step in Timeline Widget view

Topic Timeline widget, meaning the widget used to see the detailed progress of one specific case: It shows the timeline in regards of all activities and work item/steps from the case creation 2. The pain point There’s a major “case follow-up/track...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Delivered

Provide full support for Okta as Identity and Access Manager Provider

Many customers are or will be using Okta as their cloud IAM provider and CP4BA should provide full support for this IAM provider.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Delivered

Provide access to Cloud Pak License Service Reporter Dashboards for non-administrative users

The License Reporter component of CP foundational services provide a very good overview about current and historical license consumption across deployed instances and clusters. Currently only Cloud Pak users which have the "Cluster Admin" or "Clou...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Delivered

CP4BA 22.0.2 (FCN 5.5.10) on Containers implemented readOnlyRootFilesystem, there are some cases where this feature should be able to be disabled

We have a customer that uses Dynatrace OneAgent that does code insertions on pods to install its agent. This was preventing FileNet Operator from being able to bring up application pods on an AWS EKS cluster due to the readOnlyRootFilesystem.
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 4 Delivered

Allow zen to accept custom tokens

We are migrating from traditional BAW to BAW within CP4BA and are facing a blocker with the way authentication is handled within foundational services. Our current flow is as follows:1. There are Java applications are developed and BPM (in WAS lev...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Delivered

CPE containers for FNCM and CP4BA do not include the feature needed to allow for the ccdtURL needed to make an HA connection to an MQ server.

CPE containers for FNCM and CP4BA do not include the feature needed to allow for the ccdtURL needed to make an HA connection to an MQ server.
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Delivered

IM/Zen support for authentication/authorization with OIDC+LDAP

CPFS Support for OIDC+LDAP ( to support CP4BA migration use cases) Description: The main request is about support for OIDC+LDAP in IM, but this RFE has in fact a much broader scope.It also includes requests for:improvements to the IM UI, to make i...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Delivered

Enhance the operator mechanism

Currently, if want to change anything of the existing environment, the operator need to check all the existing resources and then apply the change. It could take up to more than one hour to wait for the change take effective. This mechanism doesn'...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Delivered