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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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Enable Document Processing toolkit functionality within BAW workflows to support document field highlight interaction.

Currently in CP4BA, the Document Processing toolkit is only supported within Business Applications and is not intended for direct use inside Business Automation i.e (BAW aka workflow capability). However, there is a growing need to integrate advan...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Vault Support for custom code running in the CPE

When implementing Code Modules for the Content Engine, sometimes you want to integrate a backend system which requires an authenticationAt FOITT we have multiple of these integrated Code Modules. It would be very helpful with a vault integration t...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

we use Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes on top of our RHOCP environment, and we're looking for an alternative to netcat which is used in the liveness probes by Kafka in BAI functionality

To summarize our observations and the joint session findings: The Zookeeper container includes the Netcat binary, and it actively uses Netcat to discover other Zookeeper pods during startup. ACS detects this behavior and kills the pod, which preve...
14 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 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 ...
15 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Submitted

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-...
20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

Assess and modify CP4BA to adhere to Kubernetes Application security controls and best practices for hardening applications to benefit Ford, IBM, and other IBM customers.

To improve the availability, reliability, security, and scalable operations of Ford’s OpenShift clusters and the applications that share them, Ford Motor Company is enforcing K8s policies and best practices from Red Hat, Google, the Cloud Native C...
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Future consideration

Official Helm Chart Support for IBM Cloud Pak Workflow Process Services (wfps)

Provide Official Helm Chart Support for Cloud Pak Workflow Process Services (wfps)Our organization's current deployment and lifecycle management practices for IBM Cloud Pak Workflow Process Services (wfps) do not fully leverage the benefits of sta...
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Pod Disruption Budget (PDB) Support for IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA)

Request for Enhancement: Implement Pod Disruption Budget (PDB) Support for CP4BA Custom Resources Currently, the deployment of IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) components via its Custom Resources (CRs) and associated operators lacks n...
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Enable configuring jvm_customize_options using secret.

There is a configuration option in the custom resource (ICP4ACluster) called: spec.baw_configuration[].jvm_customize_options / spec.workflow_authoring_configuration.jvm_customize_options. Here you can specify variables for the JVM running baw/bas....
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review

Implement a simple server-to-server single sign on in CP4BA

We have a remote service that uses JWT tokens for authentication, and we need to interact with it while executing a service flow. We need to use the same user that is executing it. We'd like to use the same authorization. We would reuse the JWT to...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Under review