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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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)

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

    IBM JDK 17 support

    FileNet Content Management currently supports only IBM JDK 8 with traditional WebSphere. Though IBM JDK 8 is long term supported the industry has already moved to the latest version of JDK. Currently only the liberty supports with latest JDK. Need...
    over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

    Coach view ECMFolderList doesn't permit to filter the CMIS content

    Workflow Capability permit to work with ECM servers through the usage of the CMIS protocol. We are building a CSHS interface that uses the coach view ECMFolderList. Since our ECM is FileNet, we decided to hide some folder implementing the isHidden...
    almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

    Ablity to add the additional headers as an optional for the advance storage area for the S3 storage class

    provisioning the ability for users to add the optional headers to specify a storage class in the x-amz-storage-class header either by jvm parameters or option s3 bucket configuration fields It will help lot of customers to reduce the transition co...
    over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

    Cleaning Process Engine Event Logs - Add option for leaving user defined log entries behind

    This idea would be to add an option to the pelog cleanup program for the Process Engine Event log to leave user defined log entries behind. User defined log entries are defined in the documentation as log entries with a type field higher than 1000.
    over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    FNCM Standalone on Containers should allow to describute Index Areas to separate PVs

    Operating a multi-tenant FNCM environment on containers, client found issues with the PV on which CSS Index Areas are stored immediately affected indexing and search of all Business Units / Tenants attached. Being able to separate CSS Index Areas ...
    about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

    content assist feature for image pdf, jpeg and tiff documents

    content assist feature for image pdf, jpeg and tiff documents
    over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

    Option to disable mobile download/sharing/print on IBM Navigator Mobile

    This request came from a customer in the public sector industry in which users on navigator mobile application should not be allowed to download content from FileNet to their local storage device. This is considered a security risk for my customer...
    over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

    Allow for choosing the storage location for FileNet Content Manager thumbnails.

    Currently, FileNet Content Manager 5.5.5 only allows thumbnails to be stored in the Object Store database. Even at the smallest thumbnail size, this begins to take up a large amount of space in the database. We have a requirement to generate thumb...
    over 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration

    FileNet Content Platform Engine Object Store Key Rotation Enhancement to Improve Content Key Protection and Reduce Need to Reprocess / Move Content for New Key

    FileNet Content Platform Engine Object Store Key Rotation Enhancement to Improve Content Key Protection and Reduce Need to Reprocess / Move Content for New Key. What we understand is: There appears to be actually three levels of keys in a FileNet ...
    over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

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