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

    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 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 6 Future consideration

    Support valueFrom: secretKeyRef / configMapKeyRef env var wiring in the CP4BA CR for data sources, code modules, task services, and ICN plugins.

    Use Case The CP4BA operator and its Custom Resource do not allow customers to bind container environment variables to individual keys inside a Kubernetes Secret or ConfigMap using the standard valueFrom: secretKeyRef / configMapKeyRef pattern. Thi...
    4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

    Zen should have the feature to support Org based authentication

    Currently in WAS, we have a feature to authenticate users at BPM using All Authenticated in Application's Realm. This looks up the LDAP repository with the base entry o=<Your Org Name as configured in LDAP> Looks, Zen does not have this feat...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Planned for future release

    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 ...
    9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1

    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...
    10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    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...
    about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Not under consideration

    Need a logout API for all components of CP4BA to programatically logoff a given user.

    Customer is using IBM Verify for Authentication and Authorization. They are using SSO. They need to provide a global logout option, when the user clicks on this global logout, the user should be logged off from all the applications, including all ...
    about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 8 Not under consideration

    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...
    about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

    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.
    10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

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

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