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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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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

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.
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

CP4BA on Power/Openshift has limited support for Storage. We need on a long run support for Storage Scale

When using our products on Power there are many limiations due to availability of products on Power or lack of testing/support.In our situation we would like to use DB2 and CP4BA in combination with one and only one storage provider. While Storage...
5 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...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Business Automation Insights for orchestrate

We are considering using orchestrate as a means to perform simple back-office tasks, we would need to be able to monitor from a service perspective the processes performed in orchestrate - number of proceses, types (per business function), number ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

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

Need to be able to specify multiple database types when using scripted installation

CP4BA supports multiple database types (e.g. Oracle, DB2, etc.), but some applications (e.g. ADP) do not support all database types. My customer mandates Oracle where possible. This means that when installing both FNCM and ADP, we have to use Orac...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow securing IBM Automation Foundation Kafka routes by customer-provided certificates

Customer is on 21.0.3 version and soon planning to upgrade to 24.0.0 version , in this case IAF will be replaced by CPfs. Need to check if asked problem will be resolved or not after upgrade ? ................................... Customer is using ...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

Unify approaches in generated SQL files in preparation phase

Is there a reason why the SQLs for capabilities don't have a unified structure for all components? https://github.com/icp4a/cert-kubernetes/blob/24.0.0-IF003/scripts/helper/database-sql/postgresql/baa/create-baa-dbscript.sh#L41 CREATE USER ${dbuse...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Active Session Timeout Capability in CP4BA

Active session timeout in the CP4BA stack. In the current design, customer will need to change the active session timeout in ZEN, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/21.0.3?topic=administering-setting-session-idle-time-limits-...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration