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 support for configurable Filebeat output in ICP4ACluster, equivalent to WfPSRuntime

In IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation, the WfPSRuntime custom resource provides a support mechanizm for configuring the output of embedded Filebeat sidecar, such us node: logging enebleFilebeat: true filebeatOutputSecret: <secret-name> Th...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

ProcessPortal Logged in users count for CP4BA Product

We can support better prod env based on how many users in system. in traditional BAW we used below query to see number of users logged/active in processportal. in cp4ba v25 this table do not have any entries. This table is empty. how to monitor ac...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

Cp4ba Product related feture request

In traditional IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW), administrators can monitor the health status of processes and services through the Process Monitor tab in the Process Admin Console for each jvm in cluster. This capability provides a centrali...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

Modify the Task Details section of Process Portal to refresh without re-rendering.

This issue arises when using a Process Portal that is configured as the host federated portal. When that is the case, the Process Portal no longer relies on CometD for web messaging and instead refreshes at regular intervals, configured by the fed...
7 days 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...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 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,...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 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...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

I want to reduce the CPU/Memory requests/limits for both containers and initContainers

We would like full control over all the CPU/MEMORY requests/limits for both containers and initContainers. When we have many environments these numbers add up to quite abit. My profile is currently small so patching it with scaleConfig doesn't hel...
12 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...
4 months 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...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

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