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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).


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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:

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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,

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  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.


Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on May 3, 2017
Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit IWF-I-413 High Availability On BPM Servers With Zero Downtime.

IBM BPM Install or Upgrade process with Zero downtime. Merged

Wells Fargo implementing High Availability to the CORE project with Zero downtime. With this all the patches and upgrades to the application and DB servers without downtime.

We receive the information in the PMR 17988,122,00, IBM BPM product currently requires downtime when upgrading/ installing cumulative fixes with in a cell.

We are looking this upgrade/ CF install process at node level without impacting other nodes with in cell

Idea priority High
RFE ID 104631
RFE URL
RFE Duplicate of 117946
RFE Product IBM Business Process Manager
  • Guest
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    Sep 26, 2017

    In Bluemix or BPM cloud may have this capabilities available. WF would like to know how we can enable this in our infrastructure during the upgrade. Please see the information at https://www.ibm.com/blogs/bluemix/2015/10/bluemix-zero-downtime-deployment/

    Sean Koo
    Technology Manager | EIT-CLT BPM Center of Competency | Office- 612.478.6069 | Cell- 612.270.1839