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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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Enhance the operator mechanism

Currently, if want to change anything of the existing environment, the operator need to check all the existing resources and then apply the change. It could take up to more than one hour to wait for the change take effective. This mechanism doesn'...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0

New languages support in IBM Navigator

IBM Navigator already supports a lot of languages (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/content-navigator/2.0.3?topic=navigator-language-support-content), but there is a need from clients in CEE to have their local languages supported as well. They are loo...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Support for OpenLDAP

My customer, a Dutch Government Data Center, uses OpenLDAP in production. Due to her selection of CP4BA and CP4D she is forced to- also support IBM Security Directory Server or Microsoft Active Directory.- or manually maintain user / groups for ap...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Planned for future release

Allow post logout redirect in CP4BA 21.0.3 as it was the case with UMS and CP4BA 20.0.3

With CP4BA 21.0.3 and CS 3.21, it is no longer possible to perform a logout on the external IDP side as it was the case with UMS and CP4BA 20.0.3 via a post-logout redirect . A solution has been proposed to us (see file TS010116671) but requires t...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Not under consideration

It is recommended to develop a mobile APP for CP4BA

ICN has a mobile APP, but Case and Workplace do not. It is very inconvenient for users to use the mobile client. It is recommended to develop a CP4BA mobile APP, which integrates all the functions of CP4BA such as ICN, Case, and Workplace, so as ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

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 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Not under consideration

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 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

Add a guardrail feature in CP4BA to avoid Elastic Mapping Explosion or alert them upon reaching a certain threshold

Elastic Search has a known issue called "Mapping Explosion" (More about it here: https://www.elastic.co/blog/3-ways-to-prevent-mapping-explosion-in-elasticsearch), the issue is CP4BA by default is configured to use 1000 fields in Elastic and when ...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

When displaying reports under report section, it would be great if we enable URL field value as link.

We have a URL field in Tririga, and it can be added to a report. However, when we display it in the report section, is it possible to make the URL value as a link, so that the user may go directly to the URL instead of opening the record?
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Ability to the operator to support affinity for specific architecture type

The CP4BA operator currently has an affinitySelector that matches both amd64 AND s90x requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution: nodeSelectorTerms: - matchExpressions: - key: beta.kubernetes.io/arch operator: In values: - amd64 - s390x The re...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration