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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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Support static storage provisioning for all CP4BA deployment patterns and dependencies

Customers may not have dynamic provisioning enabled in their storage classes used for OCP deployments. Today some CP4BA components support and DOCUMENT how to manually create PVs and PVCs for specific deployments, but information is scattered and ...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

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

ICN folder view - all folders looks like that there are subfolders

The folder view always displays an arrow to expand for viewing the subfolders. This arrow will be shown for all folders , also for folder without any subfolder. For users who are working with saving document within folder it will be always an effo...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

CP4BA and WfPS - Deploy CP4BA Operator in a separate namespace from the namespace where the workload is being installed

We are installing CP4BA and WfPS at a customer with requirements for the operators to be deployed in a separate namespace from the namespace where the workload is being installed.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0

IBM BAW, ODM, IID & FileNet on Azure, Amazon or Google Public Cloud.

Hi Team, We run full shop of IBM Products. We are also under process of migrating to public cloud. We have huge implementation of IBM BAW, ODM, IID & FileNet in our current projects. But, most of this products are not Public Cloud compatible. ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Functionality already exists

BAI support on EKS

Allianz UK is using BAW /Case Manager with Case Analyzer and Cognos traditional on WAS. Allianz is migrating all existing FileNet / BAW implementations to AWS with native EKS Allianz asked for a roadmap using IBM BAI in this environment to replace...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

Add row to the table with no side effects like onChange event triggered without a reason

This is a request to simply the adding of rows to a table without the triggering of the onChange event without a reason For a simple use case where a data needs to be added to a table, you need: * a temporary variable to copy the content of the ta...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Future consideration

New NFS storage can be added

Now when we use the cloud Pak environment, we find that we can't add NFS storage, but can only use the NFS storage configured when installing the environment, which is very inconvenient. Customers may have multiple storage devices, old NFS server...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Functionality already exists

increased network traffic between ODF Storage Nodes on AWS

Reduce the Cost Of Operations. The Customer is THE STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA LIMITED. Customer is expecting to reduce the networm traffic
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Is a defect

It is recommended to provide one-button degradation function

After upgrading CP4BA, if the environment cannot be used due to serious BUG, we hope to provide one-button degradation function. For example, after I upgraded 21.03.ifix16 to ifix17, there was a serious bug that caused the production environment t...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Is a defect