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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

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 Functionality already exists

Active Session Timeout Capability in CP4BA

Active session timeout in the CP4BA stack. In the current design, customer will need to change the active session timeout in ZEN, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/21.0.3?topic=administering-setting-session-idle-time-limits-...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Not under consideration

HTTP Error Page Customization for IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) on OpenShift

We are currently running IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) on OpenShift, with the workflow-server component (based on WebSphere ND) exposed externally via routes. During internal security assessments (pentesting), our security team at ...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Not under consideration

Improve the Zen Access Control UI to manage non-LDAP groups

Today, it is possible to add a non-LDAP group via the API /v2/groups/{group_id}/members, even if the documentation seems to imply that this should work only with 'ldap_groups' groups: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/foundational-services/4....
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Planned for future release

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

Support for Nutanix AHV 6.10

We have support for CP4BA on Nutanix AHV 5.10 With up-gradation of environment in customer DC, the new infrastructure is all on Nutanix ANV 6.10. Request is to add Nutanix ANV 6.10 in the supported infrastructure.
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Functionality already exists

Display the right version of CP4BA with FixPack number in the OpenShift Console under Installed Operators

We have installed IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) version 24.0.0 IF003 in our OpenShift cluster (cpba-dev namespace). However, when we check the version shown in the OpenShift Console under Installed Operators, it displays the versio...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

Cluster should show Failed whenever deployment failed.

CP4BA deployment should show Failed whenever deployment failed.
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Not under consideration

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.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Future consideration

Default language per desktop

Language and locale settings can be changed by users but cannot be set per default at the ICN desktop level to avoid all users having to change them.
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Not under consideration