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

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

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

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

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

    IBM CP4BA (CPfs) should define a path to move from Embedded Postgres to External Postgres

    Clients that started with the Embedded Postgres database for CPfs features want to move to an External Postgres database for improvements on maintainability & servicability. According to current documentation, only new environments can be crea...
    5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

    CP4BA Deployment Scripts should add option to configure Foundation (only)

    The deployment scripts introduced with CP4BA have been a great step towards a reliable deployment experience. At least two use cases require that client configures the foundation pattern only: - Deployment of WfPS Workflow Process Services Runtime...
    11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Ability to use cp4a-prerequisites.sh for multiple runtime instances

    Deploying multiple runtime instances in single namespace would be a common use case for CPBA - BAW runtime environments. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0.0?topic=cbawrws-optional-configuring-multiple-instances-business...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

    Dangerous CSP policy in the application

    We recommend using nonce ( https://content-security-policy.com/nonce/ ) or hash ( https://content-security-policy.com/hash/ ) mechanisms for scripts loaded by the application.
    6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

    IBM should define a migration path from BAI Standalone to CP4BA

    BAI Standalone is intended for clients with e.g. BAW Traditional. Mid Term, also these clients will consider to move their BAW applications from Traditional to CP4BA. At that time, IBM should be able to propose a path to consolidate the applicatio...
    6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Under review

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