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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  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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FileNet Content Manager (CPE)

Allow Marking Sets to Support Boolean Property Values

Allow Marking Sets to use Boolean properties (true/false) as drivers for applying markings (e.g., IsConfidential, ContainsPII, LegalHold). Today this requires workarounds (string “Y/N”, 0/1, custom rules), which breaks type-safety and increases ma...
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Add GraphQL support to create and manage FileNet Marking Sets (and Markings)

We are using the FileNet GraphQL API to industrialize (automate) Object Store provisioning and configuration via CI/CD across multiple environments. We recently discovered that GraphQL does not allow creating/managing Marking Sets and Markings, wh...
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Support the use of cmisURI in repository.properties for CMIS spec v1.1

There is a functionality need for this feature and hence it was added/supported in CMIS spec v1.0. The same should be supported in CMIS spec 1.1 especially that CMIS spec 1.1 is recommended by IBM over spec 1.0.
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

FNCM Operator should automate change of directory bind user in GCD

We're requested to change all passwords every 8-12 weeks, which includes the directory bind user. While an update to the ldapbind secret updates the Liberty authentication part, the GCD directory config is not updated.Proposed approach that could ...
2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

FileNet FDM Limitation When Discovering Security Principals using SCIM

IBM ECM Team, FileNet Content Manager with SCIM configuration in CP4BA successfully returns all users and groups without any issues. However, when performing the same discovery through FDM, only 500 security principal entries are returned, instead...
2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

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 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 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...
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 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...
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

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...
7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Not under 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....
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

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