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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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Provide full support for Okta as Identity and Access Manager Provider

Many customers are or will be using Okta as their cloud IAM provider and CP4BA should provide full support for this IAM provider.
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3

Provide documentation on release containers images

Helps customer plan ahead for release upgrades. Customer is asking for official documentation on each upcoming release that lists container images files names/digests, sizes, and versions without requiring customer to download images from the icr....
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Enable vulnerability scanning for CP4BA capabilities with WAS Automation platform

IBM WAS Automation is very effective to keep us ahead of the vulnerability scanning on IBM Websphere and apply fixpacks to fix those. it would be really great if all CP4BA capabilities such as P8, BAW etc. can be covered under the same platform fo...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Not under consideration

Windows Authentication Support for CP4BA Database connections

Currently traditional BAW supports both SQL Server and Windows authentication methods. However, CP4BA only has the SQL Server authentication support. Some organization policies do not allow using SQL server authentication when databases are runnin...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

CP4BA deployed on IBM Power hardware needs to support FIPS

Many state/local/federal government customers have a FIPS mandate for systems accessing or processing personal sensitive data. This is a Federal regulation requiring specific encryption support across all services accessed by FIPS compliant system...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 4 Planned for future release

Allow Standalone Installation of BAI on AKS or EKS (CNCF) similar to BAW and FNCM.

Organizations are looking to install BAI without the need of CloudPak or OpenShift to avoid additional overhead and licensing costs. It will be nice to have BAI installation on CNCF Kubernetes along with BAW and FNCM.
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

I would like for CP4BA routes to be able to use OpenShift platform certificates instead of requiring custom certificates with keys

In my environment, the platform team are allowed to use long duration certificates, and have configured one for the OpenShift platform certificate and AWS load balancer used by our Cloud Pak for Business Automation install. We need to use custom c...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 6 Planned for future release

Business Automation Insights for orchestrate

We are considering using orchestrate as a means to perform simple back-office tasks, we would need to be able to monitor from a service perspective the processes performed in orchestrate - number of proceses, types (per business function), number ...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Support Custom Secrets in CP4BA & FNCM Standalone

Allowing the mapping of custom secrets into workloads similar to custom_configmaps would better secure sensitive values mapped into deployed instances. Secrets are by default more restricted with default RBAC roles, and there are many offerings to...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

CPE containers for FNCM and CP4BA do not include the feature needed to allow for the ccdtURL needed to make an HA connection to an MQ server.

CPE containers for FNCM and CP4BA do not include the feature needed to allow for the ccdtURL needed to make an HA connection to an MQ server.