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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

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Include BPM step in Timeline Widget view

Topic Timeline widget, meaning the widget used to see the detailed progress of one specific case: It shows the timeline in regards of all activities and work item/steps from the case creation 2. The pain point There’s a major “case follow-up/track...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Delivered

CP4BA 22.0.2 (FCN 5.5.10) on Containers implemented readOnlyRootFilesystem, there are some cases where this feature should be able to be disabled

We have a customer that uses Dynatrace OneAgent that does code insertions on pods to install its agent. This was preventing FileNet Operator from being able to bring up application pods on an AWS EKS cluster due to the readOnlyRootFilesystem.
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Delivered

Automatically generate YAML files

The implementation and upgrade of the IBM Cloud Pak environment requires custom YAML files, but now all are customized and modified based on files. It is recommended that IBM create a website for automatic generation of YAML files, so that users c...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Delivered

Cp4ba needs a unified portal

Obviously, cp4ba is a solution composed of multiple products (BAW, ECM, ICN, RPA, ODM, UMS, etc.), but from the perspective of customers, they think it is a product. Because it is composed of multiple products, customers have a very poor experienc...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Delivered

EUS support for CP4BA

Currently CP4BA doesn't support EUS policy and this restricts the deployment in the same cluster where other cloud paks are deloyed with EUS support.
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Delivered

Deployment of Common Services in the same namespace as CP4BA

With a dedicated installation of Common Service (i.e. one CS deployment per CP4BA deployment) we have to deploy CS in a dedicated namespace and with dedicated cp-console route. In order to reduce the amount of configuration at the OCP and reverse ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 0 Delivered