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

    Support TLS 1.3

    Provide faster and more secure encryption/handshake with TLS 1.3, reducing latency and improving cryptographic algorithms. State Farm is in the process of Cryptographic Modernization and have given the dates below for implementing TLS 1.3 Sandbox ...
    14 days ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Submitted

    Native S3 and Azure Blob Storage Support for ICC File System Collector

    IBM Content Collector (ICC) for File Systems currently supports NTFS, ReFS, DFS, and Novell file systems as source types. There is no native connector or documented support for ingesting content from AWS S3 or Azure Blob storage. Enterprise custom...
    19 days ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Future consideration

    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 ...
    about 1 year ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Planned for future release

    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...
    5 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 1 Future consideration

    IBM Content Collector for FileSystems available as Cloud Pak (Container Platform)

    We recently received feedback from IBM Netherlands regarding the future of IBM Content Collector on Windows. The product is currently in 'maintenance mode', which means that no further development is taking place. Our organization makes extensive ...
    over 2 years ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Not under consideration

    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...
    3 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Is a defect

    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 2 years ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Future consideration

    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

    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.
    8 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Not under consideration

    Make the administrative functions web-enabled

    Content Collector (ICC) currently requires administrators or operations specialists to remote desktop directly to the servers to create/update/execute task routes and to gather logs. If the administrative interface was web-enabled, this would redu...
    almost 3 years ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Planned for future release

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