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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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Be Able to Identify the Different Workflow Types

Currently when you create workflows in BA Studio, there is no way to tell wether the new workflow is BPM or Case related. The only way one would know is that they are told or go through the various workflows until you stumble upon the one you want...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 3 Functionality already exists

Business Performance Center should support unmapped elastic search.

While CP4BA 21.0.3 had enhancements on how the Event Pipeline configuration changes are pushed, the ability to configure event transformation, the ability to define additional indexes and the ability to decide what gets pushed and where was alread...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Future consideration

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

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...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Functionality already exists

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.
19 days 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...
20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Under review

inject third-party IAST agents (specifically Black Duck) into the BAW/BPM containers within Cloud Pak for Business Automation

Our Information Security team has a requirement to integrate Synopsys Black Duck IAST (Interactive Application Security Testing) with our current IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation environment to scan our BPM workflows and applications. We to p...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Under review

In Cloud pak for business automation, We need to update the certs in the odm_configuration.customization.trusted_certificate_list with a managed restart of the ODM Pods

At the moment, when we change the certificate we have all pods restarting at the same time. This is causing a huge business impact and requires downtime which is not planned. This would benefit anyone looking to change certificates due to underlyi...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Functionality already exists

CP4BA should allow script-free updates (IFIX) to allow for automation using ArgoCD e.a.

We manage environments using ArgoCD in order to automate steps to reduce effort and risk of updates. Until CP4BA 22.0.2 , IFIX installations were done by manually applying YAML files, which was easily ported into GitOps automation for ArtgoCD.In C...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Customizing IAF Routes urls for CP4BA in RHOCP

As we install the Cp4BA through Multi pattern operator in RHOCP, the product takes default Openshift console ingress to create all the routes, as the organization standard we have dedicated ingress route created for our Namespace to better manage ...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted