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

    Support for Service Mesh/ISTIO on OpenShift for CP4BA

    Support for Service Mesh in CP4BA would be very helpful in enterprise installations. ISTIO is very popular and often this is a required by our clients. currently CP4BA does not support Service Mesh. This is helpful for: - mTLS (Mutual Transport La...
    about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

    Support for Tracability, OpenTelemetry and Instrumentation to be able to use tools like Jaeger,Kiali

    There is need for tracing global transaction/request ID that starts with the platform UI and gets propagated to the various layers/components of CP4BA so that one can follow the transaction. Our clients are using OpenShift Service Mesh ( Istio ) a...
    about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Not under consideration

    Enable fetching of oidc access_token from zen/foundational services to use for authenticating downstream services.

    It is useful because it would enable us to authentienticate downstream services (BAW external services) with access_token generated from OIDC flow (and ideally compatible with this: Invoking CP4BA APIs using custom authentication tokens). From BAW...
    5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Presently in Cloud Pak for Business Automation - there is provision of configuring only 1 LDAP server - need to have a failover/HA configuration available

    For any customer environment, would there be any outage on LDAP server -however, small it maybe (even less than 2 mins) or even it could be a loss of connectivity to LDAP server for a tiny period (less than 1 min) - the entire environment become u...
    about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

    Requesting CP4BA to support Akeyless

    We are running CP4BA 25.0.0 on AWS cloud platform. Currently, we are using AWS Secret Manager as the secret provider in CP4BA. Based on the business requirement, we need to change it to Akeyless. But we are informed that Akeyless has not been qual...
    29 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

    Need a cron job for cleaning up old cache directories

    Today, ICN uses a PVC named icn-vw-cachestore to storage cached files. Each pod, when it comes up, creates a subdirectory named after itself for its own cached files. If the pods gets bounced for any reason, the pod that replaces it will create it...
    10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Under review

    Provide an option to opt out of auto-renewal or at minimum introduce advance notification and control over CP4BA certificate/licensing auto-renewal

    An unexpected certificate auto-renewal event required immediate intervention and multiple recovery steps. While infrequent, the lack of prior notification and visibility makes the process unpredictable. Customers need the ability to plan renewal d...
    about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

    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...
    about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

    Ansible module to deploy CP4BA

    We have been deploying Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) using the cert-kubernetes package via the cp4a-deployment.sh script. Since certain organizations recommend deploying software using Ansible, we would like to submit this idea for cre...
    8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

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

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