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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

Add REST/API equivalent for BPMSetECMServerProperties in CP4BA

Customers migrating from traditional BAW to CP4BA containers currently do not have a supported automated way to manage ECM server properties for process application snapshots. Traditional BAW provides the BPMSetECMServerProperties wsadmin command,...
about 19 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

CP4BA: Provide the capability to customize the storage allocation for Opensearch PVCs

The full‑text search feature requires the OpenSearch component to be deployed. However, there is no option to customize the OpenSearch PVC sizes. By default, OpenSearch reserves 200 GB of persistent storage, even though the actual storage consumpt...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

I want to archive process instances so to allow me to keep the instances while deleting the snapshots

This is useful because I want to keep the instances associated with the snapshot without deleting the snapshots This is something that's coming up with Customers from Middle East where there's a regulatory requirement with some banks to keep the d...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

Add ability to change pod timezone for Business Automation Studio similar to what is possible for Workflow Runtime

The Workflow Runtime pod allows a user to set the Timezone for the pod:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0.1?topic=parameters-business-automation-workflow-runtime-workstream-servicesenvironment_config.timezone Timezone of...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

Formal AD LDS (aka ADAM) support for CP4BA

CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: In terms of supported LDAPs for CP4BA, documentation states that "Options include IBM Security® Directory Server, Microsoft Active Directory, a PingDirectory, and a custom directory" and it provides examples (here https://ww...
30 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

Configuration updates or certificate renewals cause pods to restart following a rolling recycling strategy

Please refer to TS021723214 and TS021609280. As documented in TS021609280, when a configuration change is applied—such as updating the transaction timeout XML in /opt/ibm/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/configDropins/overrides—all CPE pods restart s...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Under review

Change the need for matching SQL ID and Schema Name in SQL Server

As per the CP4BA documentation, “the default schema name that is associated with a user must be the same as the username” (Reference: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/25.0.0?topic=scripts-creating-sql-server-database). We a...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

Proactive Queue(DefEventDestination) Depth Monitoring and Early Warning for CP4BA-BAW in liberty logs

After enabling BAI in a CP4BA production environment, we experienced a production outage due to a backend JMS queue reaching its maximum configured depth (50,000 messages). Once the limit was reached, event processing stalled, impacting business w...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted