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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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Automation Scripts using https instead of ping

We are suffering from not having ICMP ping enabled in the customer environment. We suggest to ensure all scripts provided by IBM use consistent method when checking connectivity. We would prefer using https
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

CP4BA deployed on IBM Power hardware needs to support FIPS

Many state/local/federal government customers have a FIPS mandate for systems accessing or processing personal sensitive data. This is a Federal regulation requiring specific encryption support across all services accessed by FIPS compliant system...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 4 Planned for future release

Allow Standalone Installation of BAI on AKS or EKS (CNCF) similar to BAW and FNCM.

Organizations are looking to install BAI without the need of CloudPak or OpenShift to avoid additional overhead and licensing costs. It will be nice to have BAI installation on CNCF Kubernetes along with BAW and FNCM.
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Support Custom Secrets in CP4BA & FNCM Standalone

Allowing the mapping of custom secrets into workloads similar to custom_configmaps would better secure sensitive values mapped into deployed instances. Secrets are by default more restricted with default RBAC roles, and there are many offerings to...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

It is recommended to develop a mobile APP for CP4BA

ICN has a mobile APP, but Case and Workplace do not. It is very inconvenient for users to use the mobile client. It is recommended to develop a CP4BA mobile APP, which integrates all the functions of CP4BA such as ICN, Case, and Workplace, so as ...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

Allow Content Search Service to connect to an external OpenSearch

Currently, OpenSearch has replace ElasticSearch as the default search engine used by the Cloud Pak for Business Automation - FNCM Search facility. Our customer is considering the usage of OpenSearch as a managed service offered on AWS instead of u...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Enable Multiple CPD Routes

This is a feature request to enable multple CPD routes. For example, we want the option to have a custom route that is used by the F5 Load Balancer and the other would be used to directly access the environment outside the F5 Load Balancer.
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

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

Request for official list to provide detailed information on container images versions, file sizes, digest names in the latest or future versions of CP4BA, FNCM Standalone containers or on-prem CPE and client applications

Government agencies require itemized list of software applications for purchase approval purposes. The system is called TRM. Technical Reference Model (TRM) is a set of categorized software and non-commodity hardware products that is the starting ...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

None of the links work in the trial version

It is a bug and fixing this might actually let someone be able to try
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration