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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).


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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:

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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,

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

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

Enhancement Request: Support for Viewing Large Excel Documents in IBM Content Navigator 3.1.0 (CP4BA 24.0.0.x)

Summary: Requesting enhanced support for previewing large Excel (.xlsx) documents within IBM Content Navigator using the Daeja ViewONE viewer. Problem / Business Need Currently, large Excel documents do not render properly in ICN using Daeja ViewO...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

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

CP4BA should allow script-free updates (IFIX) to allow for automation using ArgoCD e.a.

We manage environments using ArgoCD in order to automate steps to reduce effort and risk of updates. Until CP4BA 22.0.2 , IFIX installations were done by manually applying YAML files, which was easily ported into GitOps automation for ArtgoCD.In C...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 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 ...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 6 Not under consideration

Customizing IAF Routes urls for CP4BA in RHOCP

As we install the Cp4BA through Multi pattern operator in RHOCP, the product takes default Openshift console ingress to create all the routes, as the organization standard we have dedicated ingress route created for our Namespace to better manage ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Enable configuring jvm_customize_options using secret.

There is a configuration option in the custom resource (ICP4ACluster) called: spec.baw_configuration[].jvm_customize_options / spec.workflow_authoring_configuration.jvm_customize_options. Here you can specify variables for the JVM running baw/bas....
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Sailpoint integration to automate the access management

CP4BA is bundled with multiple products such FileNet Content Manager, Content Navigator, Business Automation Workflow, WebSphere,.etc. Sailpoint integration with CP4BA products will enable centralized access management, automate the access managem...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Not under consideration

Zen should have the feature to support Org based authentication

Currently in WAS, we have a feature to authenticate users at BPM using All Authenticated in Application's Realm. This looks up the LDAP repository with the base entry o=<Your Org Name as configured in LDAP> Looks, Zen does not have this feat...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Planned for future release