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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 Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files

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Allow new installation from scratch on new server with latest fixpack installer.

Allow new installation from scratch on new server with latest fixpack installer. The product got its last release 4.0.1 eleven years ago. Since then, only new fixpacks have been released. Currently first installing the release 4.0.1 using this old...
23 days ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Is a defect

Support for SharePoint Subscription Edition

As detailed reports for ICC for MSP (Content Collector for Microsoft SharePoint 4.0.1.16 - Detailed System Requirements) does not list SharePoint Subscription Edition, I opened a support case (TS020807717) where I was told that currently IBM does ...
3 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 1 Functionality already exists

Allow for use of workload identities with Microsoft Entra ID

The concept of non-human accounts doesn’t exist in Microsoft Entra ID typically applications where no human interaction is involved use OAuth client credential flow as explained here (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity-platform/v2-oa...
3 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 1 Future consideration

Enhance ICC FSC Metadata File Collector to process JSON metadata files

We have a use case to feed Content File and JSON metadata File as a pair to the ICC task route where we wanted to map the JSON attributes to Content File and archive it to FileNet Content Manager repository, right now the out of the box functional...
3 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Future consideration

Enable the Content Collector SharePoint API to leverage Graph Site Selected permissions to isolate access to individual sites instead of across the entire tenant to minimize risk exposure.

We have a sharepoint list and script that allows App APIs a certain permissions level. If ICC Azure App can leverage graph API site selected permissions, we could minimize access to only the sites we grant access to.
6 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Not under consideration

SSL Connection Between Content Collector for Email and Content Manager V8.7

As of today IBM Content Collector is not able to establish HTTPS/SSL secured connections to a Content Manager V8.7 repository. Functions affected are archiving, viewing & restore, search as well as full text indexing.
8 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Planned for future release

Add the ability to store multi-value Attribute data in Enterprise Content Manager

IBM Content Manager has multi-value attributes giving the ability to store more than 1 value in each record/document set of data. This is something we use all the time for our claim documents. Currently we can add the additional values during the ...
11 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Planned for future release

Retaining the Content Type for migrated documents.

We have implemented ICC-SharePoint with FileNet. We were able to migrate the SharePoint documents to FileNet successfully (with Leave item and Replace link). However we have noticed that the migrated document's Content Type gets changed to 'Migrat...
about 1 year ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 1 Planned for future release

ICC DB2TS Indexer logging improvements

Logfile Size and Number of Log Files: With the ICC DB2TS indexer it is not possible to configure the number of log files being written and the size of each log file. Currently only one trace file is being written with infinite size. In a high volu...
about 1 year ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Future consideration

Content Collector should support current versions of WAS Liberty and document steps to update

IBM Content Collector for Email (ICC) comes with bundled Liberty for ICC web applications. According to SCPR, for ICC 4.0.1.15 only Liberty 20.0.0.6 is supported, no following versions. 4.1.0.15IF2 delivers update to a Liberty 22.0.0.10 version. S...
over 1 year ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Future consideration