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:

Search existing ideas

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,

Post your ideas

  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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

FileNet Content Manager (CPE)

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

    Derived property - precalculated transient property

    It should be possible to define a transient property in the datamodel which value is calculated (using Java/JS) whenever it is read. (either via query, via fetch instance, ...) Partially it can be implemented using "custom search function", but it...
    over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Would like to have a multi-thread upload for large documents across filenet APIs using GRAPH QL.

    Our business users would benefit from it because they sometimes have large documents to upload.
    about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

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

    Allow Marking Sets to be added to existing FileNet properties

    Hello, We would like IBM FileNet Content Platform Engine to allow administrators to associate a Marking Set with an existing property, and not only when the property is initially created. Today, if a property has already been created without a Mar...
    3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    FileNet CFS should support federation of FileNet Domains on Containers

    Currently, federating multiple FileNet Domains requires CFS-ICI (Content Federation Services with IBM Content Integrator), which the latter not being ported to container platforms, according to Current Limitations on Containers documentation https...
    10 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Allow policy based sweeps to trigger Vector Indexing in Content Assistant

    Allowing policy based sweeps to trigger vector indexing allows teams to do batch indexing of documents during off hours where Filenet performance is less critical. In living repositories that have documents that should not be indexed by Content As...
    11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Enhancement: Add GUI for GraphQL version 5.6

    The previous version 5.5.12 of GraphQL had a GUI. It was much harder to do the install without the GUI, searching for all the values to fill in. Generating and then running each XML file was painful.
    over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 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 ...
    7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    GraphQL API parity issue. Need to allow more complex SQL queries

    GraphQL API inner join query not returning all properties GraphQL Parity with Java API Problem Description Doing more complex SQL like a simple inner join query via the GraphQL API does not return information for properties that exist in the class...
    almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Under review

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