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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.


Status Submitted
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 11, 2025

Remove Document from Content Assistant AI Index Through API

Over time documents won't be in scope for your Content Assistant use case but there isn't a good way to remove them from the AI Index.  If you could create a sweep and call an API to remove documents from the index that would be a good enhancement.

Use Case Examples:

  • The file is closed and just waiting for disposition.  You might not want documents in your AI index if you aren't going to look at them for 7 or more years.
  • You are doing a form of document versioning outside of FileNet versioning.
Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Aug 11, 2025

    We would also like to support this enhancement. Our implementation includes many documents that are considered obsolete or out of scope for AI-based retrieval. Having the ability to programmatically remove documents from the Content Assistant index would be extremely helpful. Without this, irrelevant or outdated content risks polluting results and degrading the assistant’s value over time.

    In particular, we have closed files pending disposition and legacy versions of content that should not be surfaced in responses. A documented API or sweep-based mechanism for targeted index removal would significantly improve long-term manageability.