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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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Limiting User search from Platform IdentityManager

During the current go-live at ONGC, this is a major challenge. The Platform Identity Manager search does an entire search from LDAP repository without any pagination support or any limiting criteria. The limits should be configurable - whole idea ...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

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

we use Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes on top of our RHOCP environment, and we're looking for an alternative to netcat which is used in the liveness probes by Kafka in BAI functionality

To summarize our observations and the joint session findings: The Zookeeper container includes the Netcat binary, and it actively uses Netcat to discover other Zookeeper pods during startup. ACS detects this behavior and kills the pod, which preve...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Submitted

Pod Disruption Budget (PDB) Support for IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA)

Request for Enhancement: Implement Pod Disruption Budget (PDB) Support for CP4BA Custom Resources Currently, the deployment of IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) components via its Custom Resources (CRs) and associated operators lacks n...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

Implement a simple server-to-server single sign on in CP4BA

We have a remote service that uses JWT tokens for authentication, and we need to interact with it while executing a service flow. We need to use the same user that is executing it. We'd like to use the same authorization. We would reuse the JWT to...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

A command for applying changes to existing secrets created from files.

There dosn't seem to be any command for applying changes to existing secrets created from files. A workaround could be: 1. create new secret with the changed file 2. change reference to secret in CR (lombardi_custom_xml_secret_name) 3. apply chang...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Integrating Kibana dashboards in IBM BPM (now IBM BAW - Business Automation Workflow) Process Portal

Adding Kibana dashboards to the IBM BPM (now IBM BAW - Business Automation Workflow) Process Portal can be a powerful integration, Why It Could Be a Good Idea Enhanced Visualization IBM BPM has built-in reporting tools (like Process Performance da...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

4X4DRIVE - A Digital Transformation

The 4x4 Drive Process App Design, a groundbreaking solution that leverages AI capabilities and IBM Automation tools to transform how enterprises streamline complex workflows and decision-making. AI-powered automation solution aimed at transforming...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Provision of Turbonomic Operator Resource Mappings for the Cloud Pak for Business Automation to allow automated resource management

IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management is used to dynamically manage IT resources to ensure application performance while avoiding infrastructure waste. Applying the Turbonomic Kubernetes Optimization use case to the Cloud Pack for Busines...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

Create new data groups with OR condition on BAI

The inability to create a new data group with OR instead of AND prevents the display of all the data on the dashboard make it impossible to "merge" data when using multiple tracking ids. We need a way to either merge tracking ids data or just crea...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Submitted