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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

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...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Not under consideration

Gitops approach for installation/upgrades using ArgoCD

Customers like Swiss Federal Office for Information and Telecomunication are using exclusively gitops approach to install and upgrade containerized applications on Openshift.CP4BA and its underlaying CPFS are relying on scripts which are doing a b...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Not under consideration

Preferred login/skip_pref_login=true issue

The skip_pref_login parameter is currently functioning as expected. However, the login flow could be improved so that the skip flag persists until the user successfully logs in or explicitly navigates away.
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Future consideration

Include System-Executed Tasks in BAI Events for ML Training

The Machine Learning component in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) relies on task event data from Business Automation Insights (BAI) to train the Next Best Task (NBT) model. Currently, system-executed tasks (e.g., those completed by the Auto...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

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...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Future consideration

Allow Users to Add a Custom PVC to the Workflow Process Service (WfPS) Component

Customer has a custom application that requires an absolute path to be specified. This is possible by mounting a custom pvc with the required mountPath. The requirement is to allow customers to add a PVC to the Workflow Process Service component. ...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Planned for future release

Allow CP4BA Admins to add a Custom PVC to the BAW Authoring and Runtime

We have deployed CP4BA v25 - BAW in our OpenShift cluster. As of now we are using the file path that is mounted by default (/opt/ibm/bawfile) to store and access BAW application specific configurations. We would like to add additional paths (custo...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Needs more information

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 ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Planned for future release

Proactive Queue(DefEventDestination) Depth Monitoring and Early Warning for CP4BA-BAW in liberty logs

After enabling BAI in a CP4BA production environment, we experienced a production outage due to a backend JMS queue reaching its maximum configured depth (50,000 messages). Once the limit was reached, event processing stalled, impacting business w...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

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...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Planned for future release