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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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Integrating Okta with CP4BA using SCIM should be supported in case management

There is a known limitation in CP4BA that management case solutions and applications are not supported when integrating with OKTA using SCIM. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0.0?topic=notes-known-limitations#concept_gmf...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

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

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

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

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

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

Need a logout API for all components of CP4BA to programatically logoff a given user.

Customer is using IBM Verify for Authentication and Authorization. They are using SSO. They need to provide a global logout option, when the user clicks on this global logout, the user should be logged off from all the applications, including all ...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 6 Not under consideration

Active Session Timeout Capability in CP4BA

Active session timeout in the CP4BA stack. In the current design, customer will need to change the active session timeout in ZEN, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/21.0.3?topic=administering-setting-session-idle-time-limits-...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Assess and modify CP4BA to adhere to Kubernetes Application security controls and best practices for hardening applications to benefit Ford, IBM, and other IBM customers.

To improve the availability, reliability, security, and scalable operations of Ford’s OpenShift clusters and the applications that share them, Ford Motor Company is enforcing K8s policies and best practices from Red Hat, Google, the Cloud Native C...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release