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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

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

IBM should define a migration path from BAI Standalone to CP4BA

BAI Standalone is intended for clients with e.g. BAW Traditional. Mid Term, also these clients will consider to move their BAW applications from Traditional to CP4BA. At that time, IBM should be able to propose a path to consolidate the applicatio...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

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

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...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Not under consideration

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

Pod Disruption Budget (PDB) Support for IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA)

Request for Enhancement: Implement Pod Disruption Budget (PDB) Support for CP4BA Custom Resources Currently, the deployment of IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) components via its Custom Resources (CRs) and associated operators lacks n...

Online Backup and Restore

Availability of online backup and restore features and capabilities in Cloud Pak for Business Automation
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Future consideration

Make authCacheTimeout Configurable for Platform-Auth Pod to Support Extended Inactivity Timeout in Process Portal

Currently, the Process Portal inactivity timeout property allows administrators to configure session timeout behavior for idle sessions. The client observed the following behavior during testing: 5 minutes inactivity timeout – Working as expected ...

UI_Preferred_Logon prohibits to add users or groups to the ZEN administration

Our endusers would like to be brought directly to navigator after having selected the URL in their brwosers. We are using OICD and this works great. Because we want to supress the dialog where you could select the authentication methods we have co...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Planned for future release

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