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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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Enable configuring jvm_customize_options using secret.

There is a configuration option in the custom resource (ICP4ACluster) called: spec.baw_configuration[].jvm_customize_options / spec.workflow_authoring_configuration.jvm_customize_options. Here you can specify variables for the JVM running baw/bas....
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

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...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

HTTP Error Page Customization for IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) on OpenShift

We are currently running IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) on OpenShift, with the workflow-server component (based on WebSphere ND) exposed externally via routes. During internal security assessments (pentesting), our security team at ...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Needs more information

Support for Nutanix AHV 6.10

We have support for CP4BA on Nutanix AHV 5.10 With up-gradation of environment in customer DC, the new infrastructure is all on Nutanix ANV 6.10. Request is to add Nutanix ANV 6.10 in the supported infrastructure.
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Display the right version of CP4BA with FixPack number in the OpenShift Console under Installed Operators

We have installed IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) version 24.0.0 IF003 in our OpenShift cluster (cpba-dev namespace). However, when we check the version shown in the OpenShift Console under Installed Operators, it displays the versio...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

CP4BA deployed on IBM Power hardware needs to support FIPS

Many state/local/federal government customers have a FIPS mandate for systems accessing or processing personal sensitive data. This is a Federal regulation requiring specific encryption support across all services accessed by FIPS compliant system...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 4 Planned for future release

CP4BA support for the CPfs Unified Console

This feature is required to prevent potential unexpected behavior with CPFs SSO when the CPFs deployment sizing is medium or large.
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

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.
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Support Custom Secrets in CP4BA & FNCM Standalone

Allowing the mapping of custom secrets into workloads similar to custom_configmaps would better secure sensitive values mapped into deployed instances. Secrets are by default more restricted with default RBAC roles, and there are many offerings to...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Enable Multiple CPD Routes

This is a feature request to enable multple CPD routes. For example, we want the option to have a custom route that is used by the F5 Load Balancer and the other would be used to directly access the environment outside the F5 Load Balancer.
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review