Digital Business Automation Ideas


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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


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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 Content Manager (CPE)

Evaluate compatibility of FileNet CPE 5.6 and 5.7 with MySQL database.

I researched compatibility with FileNet CPE 5.6 and 5.7 using a MySQL database in IBM's documentation, but I couldn't determine if this is supported.
5 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Extend FNCM operator to support PodTemplate Injection/Customization

In OCP, allow injection of Annotations, Labels, Mutating webhooks, Custom injection operators. 1) Extend native OpenShift/Kubernetes capabilities for a content cortex deployments, example supporting additional mounted file systems 2) Create a side...
16 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Content Cortex should support Azure Key Vault as Secrets Management Option

I've been happy to see that we've now also delivered External secret management for CCx on container platforms, However, currently the support is limited to Hashicorp . For clients using Azure Kubernetes Service as deployment platform, Azure Key V...
26 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

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...
2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 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 ...
2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

IBM FileNet - EntraID username/password to pedesigner

CPE deployment with KeyCloak as the IDP and EntraID as the Identity Provider connected to Keycloak
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Allow Marking Sets to be added to existing FileNet properties

Hello, We would like IBM FileNet Content Platform Engine to allow administrators to associate a Marking Set with an existing property, and not only when the property is initially created. Today, if a property has already been created without a Mar...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 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...
4 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Request to Enhance Logging Parameters Documentation and Feature Support

Dear IBM/FNCM Team, The current documentation for Logging Parameters only references a limited set of configuration options. However, there is a requirement to support integration with Elasticsearch using additional authentication mechanisms such ...
4 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Support choice list-based properties in FileNet Marking Sets

We would like IBM FileNet Content Platform Engine to support properties associated with choice lists when defining or using Marking Sets. Today, Marking Sets are a very useful mechanism to dynamically apply security based on metadata values. Howev...
4 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

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