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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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Assess and modify CP4BA to adhere to Kubernetes Application security controls and best practices for hardening applications to benefit Ford, IBM, and other IBM customers.

To improve the availability, reliability, security, and scalable operations of Ford’s OpenShift clusters and the applications that share them, Ford Motor Company is enforcing K8s policies and best practices from Red Hat, Google, the Cloud Native C...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

Ability to use cp4a-prerequisites.sh for multiple runtime instances

Deploying multiple runtime instances in single namespace would be a common use case for CPBA - BAW runtime environments. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0.0?topic=cbawrws-optional-configuring-multiple-instances-business...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

CP4BA - WAPT08: Improper Error Handling (Have 2 Configurations to limit very technical errors with general errors in product overall (UI, Logs))

We received a pentest reports and one of the items related to product technical errors, With Ticket #TS020182676 And Based On This I Think it will be a good idea to add 2 configurations One related to errors reported to end user in client side (Br...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

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....
6 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...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Not under consideration

BAI instalation on a Local Red Hat OpenShift

BAI to installed on a local Red Hat OpenShift, on a RedHat 9 single machine. refer to SNO (Single Node Openshift and not using pull Open shift deployment, Small profile hardware requirements and Just Flink needs 2 replicas
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Planned for future release

CP4BA support for the CPfs Unified Console

This feature is required to prevent potential unexpected behavior with CPFs SSO when the CPFs deployment sizing is medium or large.
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

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...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 6 Planned for future release

Simplify the container image download procedure for BAW or Cloud Pak for BA

Hi IBM colleage, Start from Cloud Pak for BA 21.0.3, the customer cannot download the installation file or container image file directly from IBM Passport Advantage Portal. The cusotmer needs a lot of effort to download the Cloud Pak for BA or BA...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Not under consideration

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