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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Add option to hide parameters structure from error messages

Hi Team It is requested a way to remove or disable the rule properties/parameters to be fully displayed on error messages for HTDS responses During few attempts it is possible to get all properties/parameters needed to complete the request. What i...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Native Deployment scheduling feature within IBM Decision Center

We recommend introducing a native deployment scheduling feature within IBM Decision Center. This capability would allow business users to define a specific date and time for deploying rule changes to the Decision Server without requiring external ...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Add a feature for Datacap to handle Kerberos failover without falling back to NTLM, ensuring authentication remains on Kerberos in cross‑forest setups.

In distributed enterprise environments with cross‑forest domain trusts, Datacap currently connects to servers in different domains through IP, which indicates it is using NTLM authentication. NTLM is less secure and often restricted by organizatio...
6 months ago in Datacap Not under consideration

Provide ability to save Audit logs in Database

Currently, audit logs are being stored in the audit‑logs PVC. Please provide the capability to store audit logs directly in a database. We need a feature that allows CP4BA audit logs to be written directly to a database rather than only to persist...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Not under consideration

SRVC: List user roles for task manger user when the logged in user accessed the ping page in an ICN container deployment

List user roles for task manger user when the logged in user accesses the ping page in an ICN container deployment. This is not populated consistently. This was working is the traditional Websphere deployment
6 months ago in Content Navigator Not under consideration

Mask or Disable Version Disclosure in /DecisionService Root Endpoint

Currently, sending a simple unauthenticated GET request to the root context of the Decision Service (e.g., https://[Server]/DecisionService) returns a plain HTML page displaying the full product name, version number, and specific build level (e.g....
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

ODM Standalone Operator

We currently utilise the Helm chart installation of ODM but would prefer a standalone operator to be made available. Support provided option with CP4BA, but we would like something else avoids unnecessary dependence on Cloud Pak Foundational Servi...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager Not under consideration

Disable automatic link generation in Blueworks Live processes

The customer (Blueworks Live user) has requested that the automatic creation of hyperlinks between process steps should be turned off.Currently, when a step is added or edited, Blueworks Live automatically generates a clickable link to that step i...
7 months ago in Blueworks Live Not under consideration

Make font and line color of linked processes/message events hypertext color (blue: active / purple: visited)

Viewers may not understand the functionalities of Blueworks Live, but keeping with web standards for hypertext links are generally blue/underlined or purple/underlined for visited links. Changing the fill color defeats the purpose of color-coding ...
7 months ago in Blueworks Live Not under consideration

Integration of CP4BA with GitLab and Jenkins

IBM Team, While the IBM documentation currently references GitHub and JFrog as supported integrations, there is a clear need to extend support to include Jenkins and GitLab. These tools are widely adopted in enterprise CI/CD pipelines, and their i...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Not under consideration

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