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:

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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FileNet and Content Cortext should support Red Hat Directory Server as an LDAP directory in Content Platform Engine (CPE)

Red Hat Directory Server shares the same lineage as Oracle Enterprise Directory. They were both derived from Sun One Directory. So it should be a simple qualification effort to verify that the Oracle Enterprise Directory provider in CPE is compati...
4 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Support IAM roles for S3 uploads

Today, uploading files to S3 only works with static AWS Access Key + Secret Key credentials (plus the bucket). This forces customers to create and share long-lived credentials, which is a security concern and doesn't fit how many AWS teams operate...
13 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Submitted

Delete events through the API

For IBM IPM products, most tasks are performed through the user interface. However, a REST API is available for certain functions. API documentation: IBM Process Mining REST API While it is possible to register and retrieve events through the API,...
7 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Submitted

Improve error messages on file upload

When a file upload fails, the product currently shows a generic "Generic Error" with no detail about what went wrong. This makes it hard for customers to diagnose and fix the problem on their own, and it drives avoidable support requests. We shoul...
13 days ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted Submitted

Universal Advanced Meta Space Bio-Information Satellite Network for Automatic Anywhere

“Universal Advanced Meta Space Bio-Information Satellite Network for Automatic Anywhere” can be framed as a next-generation space-based bio-intelligence and autonomous information infrastructure. It combines ideas from space biology, satellite com...
3 days ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere Submitted

Reporting Capability in Blueworks Live – Library Distribution of Processes

Request for reporting capability available in Blueworks Live that can help identify how processes are distributed across different libraries.
6 days ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

Remove the link between the DB schema name and DB User, so that the DB Username can be changed

This is to allow for changes to be made to the DB Username and to prevent the validation step using BPMConfig.sh from failing when running DB commands.
4 days ago in Business Automation Workflow Submitted

Support automatic Process SVG generation during Maven builds

Provide a supported way to generate BPMN Process SVG files during the Maven build, without requiring Visual Studio Code or manual steps. Currently, SVG files can only be generated through the BAMOE VS Code editor, making it difficult to automate C...
4 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.4.x Submitted

FileNet and Content Cortex container deployments should create Gateway API ingress on CNCF Kubernetes cluster

Currently for FileNet container deployments on CNCF Kubernetes clusters, the FileNet Operator can create the Ingress Nginx configuration for the FileNet endpoints in the Kubernetes cluster. However, Ingress Nginx has been retired as of March 2026 ...
4 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

WFPS runtime/authoring - BPMN emitter without BAI?

Hi We are using WFPS runtime/authoring environments. We need BPMN events to flow to Kafka. From there we have a custom consumer which reads the events and we are not currently interested in the other features of BAI. We cannot configure events to ...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Submitted

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