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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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:

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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)

    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...
    5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 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
    5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Netapp SnapLock Customers are not welcome in the containerized world

    There are many customers in the fields which are using FileNet Content Manager since years successfully in combination with Netapp SnapLock volumes. They have created many volumes due to compliance reasons. They have grouped volumes for each year ...
    over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 2 Future consideration

    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...
    5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

    CmAbstractDependent-based search in FileNet SQL Query

    It would be convenient to be able to perform object store search based on any dependent-object property value (e.g. CmAcmBusinessObject from ICM)Currently we have to create string-serialized properties and update them constantly for searching purp...
    3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Provide an option so IBM License Service does not create the CR

    We’d like a change to the license operator logic to check if a cr was provided and throw an error if one is not present and if one is present parse it and attempt to use it. Or create a new OPR flag to ONLY dump a template cr IF a site asks it to....
    9 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

    Need to support http for PE server for containers

    Right now, this is supported for Websphere/Weblogic only: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/filenet-p8-platform/5.6.0?topic=how-pe-pe-https-workflow-transfer-configuration-changes Want this support for containers as well. I.e. I have to use a custom net...
    10 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

    Use Azure Blob Immutable storage as a Fixed Content Device

    Azure Blob storage is not listed as a Fixed Content Device in the Document Storage technote for FileNet Content Manager and IBM Content Foundation. ASA does not support immutable storage, so a CPE retention policy must be set up to match the Azure...
    about 1 month ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Ability to monitor the navigator app probes with http port Since ROSA 4.17.15 the GO has been upgraded and enforces stricter cipher policies, and RSA-based ciphers (especially those without forward secrecy) are now blocked by default. That’s why the probes on port 9443 (HTTPS) are failing, and switching to HTTP on 9080 becomes essential to get the operator up.

    Ability to monitor the navigator app probes with http port Since ROSA 4.17.15 the GO has been upgraded and enforces stricter cipher policies, and RSA-based ciphers (especially those without forward secrecy) are now blocked by default. That’s why t...
    8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

    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) 0 Submitted

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