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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 ...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

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

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

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...
6 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...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

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

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

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

Enable Support for Hashicorp on CP4BA to Store Secrets

ODM on CP4BA diverges from the RBC standards with respect to storing “secrets” such as credentials. The OpenShift preference is to manage this with a component called Hashicorp Vault. ODM on Kubernetes alrady supports this but CP4BA does not. We r...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Planned for future release