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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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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...
2 months 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 ...
24 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

CP4BA Deployment Scripts should add option to configure Foundation (only)

The deployment scripts introduced with CP4BA have been a great step towards a reliable deployment experience. At least two use cases require that client configures the foundation pattern only: - Deployment of WfPS Workflow Process Services Runtime...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

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

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

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...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

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...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Submitted

The introduction of a "latest" aggregate to filter events in BAI Dashboard

The dashboard should show the last action(Alone) carried out on items so user can only see the timestamp of the latest event and not all event on the primary filtered unique ID(filter). Examples: Documents are loaded on navigator.. Filter: Doc ID,...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted