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.


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Cloud Pak for Business Automation

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    Allow CP4BA Admins to add a Custom PVC to the BAW Authoring and Runtime

    We have deployed CP4BA v25 - BAW in our OpenShift cluster. As of now we are using the file path that is mounted by default (/opt/ibm/bawfile) to store and access BAW application specific configurations. We would like to add additional paths (custo...
    6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    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...
    2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Disabling PVC checks in Workflow-operator

    IBM Team, Workflow operator pod (which I believe unlike the content-operator) automatically checks for the PVC size, and If any configuration added under baw_configuration section it won't be picked up because of the following error: "PersistentVo...
    7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Online Backup of CP4BA deployment

    Currently we cannot perform online backup in CP4BA, We have Fusion recipes but those are not taking complete backup of the CP4BA namespace. It will be great if online backup of CP4BA namespace can be made possible. The online backup tool for Cp4BA...
    11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Future consideration

    Presently in Cloud Pak for Business Automation - there is provision of configuring only 1 LDAP server - need to have a failover/HA configuration available

    For any customer environment, would there be any outage on LDAP server -however, small it maybe (even less than 2 mins) or even it could be a loss of connectivity to LDAP server for a tiny period (less than 1 min) - the entire environment become u...
    6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Planned for future release

    Ansible module to deploy CP4BA

    We have been deploying Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) using the cert-kubernetes package via the cp4a-deployment.sh script. Since certain organizations recommend deploying software using Ansible, we would like to submit this idea for cre...
    about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Include System-Executed Tasks in BAI Events for ML Training

    The Machine Learning component in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) relies on task event data from Business Automation Insights (BAI) to train the Next Best Task (NBT) model. Currently, system-executed tasks (e.g., those completed by the Auto...
    2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Add possibility of Customization of filebeat.yml

    Hello It looks like that possibilty of the configuration of filebeat is minimal, only enable it by define filebeat-output.yml and add external output. It is not possible customization of filebeat.yml file by adding aditional processors for logs pa...
    about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Submitted

    Support for Tracability, OpenTelemetry and Instrumentation to be able to use tools like Jaeger,Kiali

    There is need for tracing global transaction/request ID that starts with the platform UI and gets propagated to the various layers/components of CP4BA so that one can follow the transaction. Our clients are using OpenShift Service Mesh ( Istio ) a...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Not under consideration

    Support for Service Mesh/ISTIO on OpenShift for CP4BA

    Support for Service Mesh in CP4BA would be very helpful in enterprise installations. ISTIO is very popular and often this is a required by our clients. currently CP4BA does not support Service Mesh. This is helpful for: - mTLS (Mutual Transport La...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 1 Not under consideration

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