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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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Content and Capture Services - other

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In IBM Content Collector create a new collector that can connect to and archive content from S3 storage

S3 storage is becoming more frequently used for various applications and it would be useful to be able to access and archive content from this type of storage.
about 13 hours ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

IBM Content Collector to have a generic emaill connector implementation to connect using SMTP host, port and credentials, with optional folder name.

Why it is useful?Many customers use IBM Content Collector to ingest documents into IBM FileNet Content manager, and one of the main use case is to archive emails from the mail inbox and store it for future reference. Currently, the IBM Content Col...
19 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

For containerized FileNet, provide the option to completely disable logging to the file system

Currently, the logs for all the components are sent both to:- the output of the pods. - one or more PVC (file system).Due to restrictions/policies on the use of persistent storage on the cluster, the customer would like to completely disable loggi...
3 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Future consideration

Netapp SnapLock Customers are not welcome in the containerized world

There are many customers in the fields which are using FileNet Content Manager since years successfully in combination with Netapp SnapLock volumes. They have created many volumes due to compliance reasons. They have grouped volumes for each year ...
3 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Future consideration

Improve the process for splitting documents

When I split a document, I would like for it to automatically update to “Main page” so I do not have to manually do it and click “submit” and exit any pop up errors for changes. Currently, we are stuck with the present manual process of changing t...
5 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Future consideration

Ability to restrict file types when adding (uploading) documents using Entry Templates.

The ability to restrict file types when attempting to add documents using Entry Templates can offer significant advantages to any organization such as below. 1) By limiting the types of files that can be uploaded, you can ensure that only relevant...
5 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Future consideration

Build an integration between IBM Content Collector and ADP/ADP Extension

We have many uses case where a LOB has documents stored in a network share and they need to be moved to FileNet. Step 1. If we could use ICC to process the documents into ADP so that they could be classified and have metadata extracted.Step 2. Pas...
6 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Not under consideration

Navigator for Filenet & CSS unable to find results when wildcard *(asteriks) is in searched value

Volvo business users expect to use wildcard while searching in CSS. Example: Searched value: e1*1230/2012*2019/1892*0151 When indexed value contain asterisk sign as part of value, it causes problem during the search, and Volvo knew that this funct...
6 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Future consideration

Set a property on which the search result should be sorted in the IS-Connector for ICN

In IDM Desktop and ISTK there was the possibility to set a property on which the search result should be sorted. Unfortunately this is no longer possible in the IS-Connector for ICN. Our customer does not use ICN, but has his own frontend solution...
over 2 years ago in Content and Capture Services - other 4 Not under consideration

HPE/Scality RING storage support with FileNet Image Services

HPE/Scality RING storage support with FileNet Image Services Case number: TS006578461 FileNet Image Services (current version) on Solaris 11 with a remote Oracle 19c database We are planning to migrate a storage platform for the FileNet/P...
over 2 years ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Not under consideration