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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).


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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

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

Integration of CP4BA with GitLab and Jenkins

IBM Team, While the IBM documentation currently references GitHub and JFrog as supported integrations, there is a clear need to extend support to include Jenkins and GitLab. These tools are widely adopted in enterprise CI/CD pipelines, and their i...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Not under consideration

Formal AD LDS (aka ADAM) support for CP4BA

CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: In terms of supported LDAPs for CP4BA, documentation states that "Options include IBM Security® Directory Server, Microsoft Active Directory, a PingDirectory, and a custom directory" and it provides examples (here https://ww...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

we use Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes on top of our RHOCP environment, and we're looking for an alternative to netcat which is used in the liveness probes by Kafka in BAI functionality

To summarize our observations and the joint session findings: The Zookeeper container includes the Netcat binary, and it actively uses Netcat to discover other Zookeeper pods during startup. ACS detects this behavior and kills the pod, which preve...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

Remove hardcoded Operator-node affinity for temporary setup Pods to support standard OpenShift workload isolation

Summary of the Enhancement Modify the CP4BA Operator so that it no longer hardcodes node affinity to its own host node when deploying temporary pods (used for PVC mounting and JDBC driver updates) into the operand namespace. The temporary pod shou...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

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....
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

Implement a simple server-to-server single sign on in CP4BA

We have a remote service that uses JWT tokens for authentication, and we need to interact with it while executing a service flow. We need to use the same user that is executing it. We'd like to use the same authorization. We would reuse the JWT to...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

Sailpoint integration to automate the access management

CP4BA is bundled with multiple products such FileNet Content Manager, Content Navigator, Business Automation Workflow, WebSphere,.etc. Sailpoint integration with CP4BA products will enable centralized access management, automate the access managem...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 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 ...

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