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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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)

    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 ...
    about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

    Implement a P8 #Creator place holder

    A business partner has a requirement where they do not want the creator user to be the owner of a document, but they still need to apply permissions to the creator on that document. The current #Creator-Owner place holder is too broad for their ne...
    about 5 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 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...
    about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

    Support connecting CPE on containers to CSS on VM (traditional)

    CPE on containers can store all the business data outside of the cluster's PV, but not CSS: the indexes must be stored on a PVC.Not all Kubernetes or OCP cluster provide persistent storage that can be used for business data, for various reasons: r...
    about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration

    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...
    about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 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.
    about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

    JVM Argument Override for LDAP Search/Global Catalog Configuration

    Allow for a filenet.gcd.ldapSearch and/or filenet.gcd.ldapCatalog JVM argument value to specify a different LDAP Domain Controller or LDAP DNS for the following reasons: IF LDAP services configured are down/dead/not availble, allows for reconfigur...
    about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

    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....
    about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Add an ability to check the CBR-status of a document in the full text index

    Related to case TS008281004 we have the problem that there is no chance (confirmed by L3) to check if a document is correctly inserted into the full text index. We need a tool or consitency check that enables us to check, if a document and all its...
    over 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

    Exclude specific MimeTypes from being CBR-indexed BEFORE content is loaded from Fixed Content Device

    We have several document classes that contain documents of a wide varity of mimetypes. The document classes are CBR enabled but it is very obvious that some MimeTypes within this document class are not valid for CBR indexing (i.e. images or videos...
    over 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

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