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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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)

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
7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 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) Future consideration

Enable Bearer Token Authentication for FileNet Deployment Manager in an LDAP-less environment

We request that Bearer Token Authentication be enabled for FileNet Deployment Manager. This functionality already exists when authenticating with a custom Java API (jace.jar) client application. Please include this authentication method for FileNe...
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 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...
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Add CMIS‑style offset/limit pagination support to the FileNet GraphQL API

FileNet’s GraphQL API only provides token‑based pagination, which requires clients to store and reuse a continuation token. This is difficult for distributed systems or lightweight clients that don’t keep state. Adding an optional offset/limit pag...
2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Project‑Specific Document List View Properties within a Single Object Store

Background We are currently using the IBM FileNet Salesforce Connector to manage documents across multiple business projects under the same Object Store. Today, document list view properties are configured at the Object Store level and apply unifo...
about 1 month ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Add choice list value in order for sub-group (nested group) choice list

When use ACCE to add values into choice list, if on a single layer choice list, we can select the position where to add the new value in the list and it works properly. However, when doing the same on a sub-group (nested group) choice list, when a...
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 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...
12 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 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....
10 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 ...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

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