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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

FileNet Content Manager (CPE)

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    Content Assistant Client Managed should describe approach to determine and limit Authorized Users

    As of Dec 2025, Content Assistant Client Managed Software is entitled through Authorized Users, which leads to the question how access to the feature and the related license cost can be controlled and limited. Using Content Navigator, the ICN desk...
    3 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Hybrid Solution Fixed Content Storage (Retention) with Advanced Storage Area (Staging)

    Enhance fixed content device storage to utilize advanced storage areas for staging vs a localized path / file storage location as currently designed. This would utilize the streaming aspects of advanced storage, eliminating local operating system ...
    about 1 month ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    IBM GraphiQL ear build to local install directory

    To ensure proper versioning of the generated EAR files and facilitate potential rollback scenarios in the future, it will be useful to adhere to the Urban Code Deployment process. Following this process will help us maintain consistency and improv...
    about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Allow the use of an Entra ID workload identity for Directory Server Accounts

    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. The FileNet CPE makes use of some directory server accounts tha...
    2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

    Add vector indexing/deindexing as an event action

    Vector indexing/deindexing is crucial for developers to maintain a minimally sized vector index. As of right now the only way to deindex a document is with a custom sweep job. That's fine for manually cleaning up a repository every once in a while...
    2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    CPE: Remove relationship when deleting a child compound document

    The original design documentation for the compound documents feature clearly state that when using Dynamic relationships, in some cases the relationship can point at nothing if there isn’t a version which satisfies the binding rule. Furthermore, w...
    2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

    FileNet CFS should support federation of FileNet Domains on Containers

    Currently, federating multiple FileNet Domains requires CFS-ICI (Content Federation Services with IBM Content Integrator), which the latter not being ported to container platforms, according to Current Limitations on Containers documentation https...
    2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Allow policy based sweeps to trigger Vector Indexing in Content Assistant

    Allowing policy based sweeps to trigger vector indexing allows teams to do batch indexing of documents during off hours where Filenet performance is less critical. In living repositories that have documents that should not be indexed by Content As...
    3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Additional setting within the audit definition to capture LDAP user access during content retrieval.

    Additional setting within the audit definition to capture LDAP user access during content retrieval. It could enhance traceability and compliance for sensitive document access
    3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Provide a java class/method that can create a teamspace based on a template, usable from an event handler or navigator service

    It appears most/all of the code to create teamspaces is embedded in Content Navigator. That requires someone to navigate a UI to create a teamspace. This idea is to provide a simple Java entry point that takes a teamspace template and allows you t...
    3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

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