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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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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  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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Get BAI to be more flexible in the naming settings

Context and Requirements Our organization has a convention of exposing all external services on the bdapps.* domain rather than apps.*. On our namespaces, we add the label type=bdapps, which causes the “bdapps” router to be used instead of the def...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

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...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

Ability to have multiple NAS mounts and use more than one PV/PVC on a CPE container for file storage

We have multiple NAS mounts on one traditional WAS CPE server. We are in the process of upgrading to containers using the IBM FNCM Operator; however, there is a limitation to the CPE deployment where you can only have one PV/PVC assigned which mea...
10 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

CORS Policy Issue in BAW with External CPE and Content Navigator to handle multiple allow origins

The ICN URL to be accessible via GTM, LTM, and also via individual node URLs. At present, the product-provided CaseCors.jar appears to have a limitation in handling multiple origins. In addition to the CORS concern, we would like to highlight the ...
2 months ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

configure a Credentials Manager using a Web Identity Provider in FileNet Content Platform Engine 5.7 to avoid managing and rotating static HMAC access keys for our Advanced Storage Areas. Our FileNet deployment runs in a GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) cluster on Google Cloud Platform.

We are planning to configure a Credentials Manager using a Web Identity Provider in FileNet Content Platform Engine 5.7 to avoid managing and rotating static HMAC access keys for our Advanced Storage Areas. Our FileNet deployment runs in a GKE (Go...
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

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,...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

FCM Operator creation of truststore ignores duplicate secret entries

It seems the FCM OPR will automatically try and combine all the secrets (LDAP, DB, FCM, etc...) and in this case all those secrets all point to the same truststore - with ALL certs in them, (i.e. they are already combined by the site...), in your ...
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

CPE: Remove relationship when deleting a child compound document

The original design documentation for the compound documents feature clearly state that when using Dynamic relationships, in some cases the relationship can point at nothing if there isn’t a version which satisfies the binding rule. Furthermore, w...
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

To extend the current indent guide line and/or to change font size in designer mode to increase the number of lines included.

In complex automations developed in IBM Robotic Process Automation Designer, workflows often contain multiple nested conditions, loops, and exception-handling blocks that are currently displayed at the same visual level. This makes large scripts d...
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

Additional setting within the audit definition to capture LDAP user access during content retrieval.

Additional setting within the audit definition to capture LDAP user access during content retrieval. It could enhance traceability and compliance for sensitive document access
9 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

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