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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

Align BAW, BAN and CPE supported mime types

Hi, to upload an Office document into a Document list from a Human service, we have to update the configuration (see link below). A complete mime types definition list exists in FileNet Engine, there's also a mime types definition list in Business...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Not under consideration

dynamic groups of users in IAM of cp4ba

create a dynamic user group to automatically add users to the IAM as they are created in the AD
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Future consideration

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

Enterprise requires the use of organization-approved, custom CA‑signed certificates. Add support in the CP4BA Operator to allow customers to configure custom signed leaf certificates for the OpenSearch route, without requiring the creation of a custom Issuer. 

When running CP4BA in a public cloud environment need to securely connect from on‑premises systems to OpenSearch. Many enterprises require the use of organization-approved, custom CA‑signed certificates to meet internal security and compliance sta...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

Change the need for matching SQL ID and Schema Name in SQL Server

As per the CP4BA documentation, “the default schema name that is associated with a user must be the same as the username” (Reference: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/25.0.0?topic=scripts-creating-sql-server-database). We a...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

Proactive Queue(DefEventDestination) Depth Monitoring and Early Warning for CP4BA-BAW in liberty logs

After enabling BAI in a CP4BA production environment, we experienced a production outage due to a backend JMS queue reaching its maximum configured depth (50,000 messages). Once the limit was reached, event processing stalled, impacting business w...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

Provide ability to save Audit logs in Database

Currently, audit logs are being stored in the audit‑logs PVC. Please provide the capability to store audit logs directly in a database. We need a feature that allows CP4BA audit logs to be written directly to a database rather than only to persist...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Not under consideration

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...
5 months 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 ...