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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    Global session timeout across all CP4BA components

    Session timeout has to be configured in each CP4BA components but this must be done individually with the risk of having inconsistent session durations. It should be possible to configure a global session duration at the operator level to ensure t...
    over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Not under 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 ...
    about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1

    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.
    about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Readiness and Liveness Probe failures should show detailed explanation about issues at info level logs

    Readiness and Liveness Probe failures should show detailed explanation at info level logs, It should show why it is failing/what component of that check is failing? etc. This must be implemented on all CP4BA deployments and stateful sets. But it i...
    about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Add a special marker and disable manual user addition for the tw_allusers group in Process Admin Console of BAW

    Currently, the tw_allusers group in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) is managed automatically by the system. All active users are automatically added to this group, and manual addition is unnecessary and misleading. However, the PAC interfac...
    about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Have a configurable “Service unavailable” page for CP4BA components, which are currently unavailable, instead of the “Bad Gateway” error page.

    Please find the detailed description of the scenario which we encountered recently. Business Justification: The “Bad Gateway” page does not provide users with meaningful information when a service is unavailable. A customized “Service Unavailable”...
    2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Users inside the nested groups are unable to login unless they add the group directly

    In an active directory group that have many other groups as members, the users inside the nested groups are unable to login unless they add the group directly.
    2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    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

    A command for applying changes to existing secrets created from files.

    There dosn't seem to be any command for applying changes to existing secrets created from files. A workaround could be: 1. create new secret with the changed file 2. change reference to secret in CR (lombardi_custom_xml_secret_name) 3. apply chang...
    5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Create new data groups with OR condition on BAI

    The inability to create a new data group with OR instead of AND prevents the display of all the data on the dashboard make it impossible to "merge" data when using multiple tracking ids. We need a way to either merge tracking ids data or just crea...
    5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Submitted

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