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).


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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,

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  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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FileNet Content Manager (CPE)

Retention Settings of Snaplock device are cached even across CPE restarts

Dealing with a case we became aware, that changing the min/default/max retention times of a Snaplock volume did not reflect in FCD trace. Traces show that the retention times are still compared with the old settings the snaplock device had before....
10 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

CPE: JUL Logging should be enhanced with operational functions similar to the former Log4J-implementation

Since Content Platform Engine has changed the underlaying logging framework from Log4J to JUL there are several important functions missing that existed before with log4j standard configuration : Logrotation (i.e. daily) It's very important to adm...
over 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Future consideration

Support for specifying a pre-existing S3 bucket for an Advanced Storage Area in the FileNet FNCM Operator and Custom Resource

When automating or otherwise creating a FileNet environment in OpenShift it is not possible to specify a pre-existing S3 bucket to use as the storage for an Advanced Storage Area, the environment must be created and then the ASA added with the S3 ...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Future consideration

For FileNet Content Platform Encryption, support for KMIP 2.0 standard needed in 2023

Thales Software is combining several products (like Vormetric DSM) into a future suite called CipherTrust, this product requires KMIP 2.0 standard. Thales CiperTrust becomes main KMIP provider solution in 2024 (sounds like per internal crypto team...
over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Planned for future release

FileNet tolerance for multiple LDAP directory configurations in case one of LDAP configuration is down

Please refer to previous FER https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/BACSD-I-104 In some users scenario, Filenet has multiple LDAP Directory configurations,DCOs. For some directory configuration only for external user authentication, LDAP server might not be ...
almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Future consideration

FileNet Upgrade Blue/Green Deployments

Problem Statement We currently run FileNet on Openshift. We have a blue/green deployment strategy when upgrading openshift, so our customers have 100% uptime when we perform our upgrades. Traditionally, IBM upgrades, and specifically upgrades that...
almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Future consideration

Content Assistant hosted on IBM Cloud

Lack of trust for other vendors, want a certified and compliant Financial Cloud platform for their European business/ business partners.
11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Improve messages in CPE log to when access is denied to include the objectid

When troubleshooting access issue especially for developers to design assets it is very difficult to do without turning on security tracing. Here's an example CE_System0.log shows this message: 2024-07-31T08:19:28.743 0000018D ENG FNRCE0001E - ERR...
almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Future consideration

Entry template rendering in BAW 23.0.2 and ICN 3.0.15 (on-prem)

Additional properties that are of type ‘object’, are being displayed even though they’re not part of a layout. It would be easier to have the feature to toggle this on / off on the fly as opposed to making changes to the target class.
almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Future consideration

FNCM on Containers with SSO should document settings to route directly to IDP (and skip idplogin.jsp page)

FNCM Standalone on Containers offers options to connect to one or multiple Identity Providers for Authentication, as well as in addition still enable the LDAP based authentication. Many organizations however will in production rely on exactly one ...
11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

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