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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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Content and Capture Services - other

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Change ephemeral storage usage to generic ephemeral volumes

The current usage of ephemeral storage (via {emptyDir} in deployment manifests can cause problems for bigger shared Openshift/Kubernetes environments, since the storage is allocated on the node storage, which can lead to pod eviction in case of un...
about 1 year ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Under review

Reduce or accelerate the reconciliation cycle for implementing changes in CP4BA

Detailed Description: Currently, in Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA), whenever changes are made to component configurations, it is necessary to wait for the reconciliation cycle to run automatically for the adjustments to take effect. Thi...
11 days ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Openshift 5.5.12 FNCM deployment of FileNet...the CR file has no provisions for modifying number of replicas

Right now, if you were to choose a Medium or Large deployment in the CR, you get a maximum of 2 pods for like CPE: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/filenet-p8-platform/5.5.12?topic=deployment-system-requirements Is this adequate? Especially for a large...
7 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Submitted

We are migrating from Websphere-->OPC containers. For CMIS, the endpoint has changed from /openfncmis to /openfncmis_wlp

We have many webservices applications written using the /openfmcis endpoint. Now we have to re-write the connections for our apps to this new /openfmcis_wlp endpoint. This is unnecessary work for us, especially when we do the switch from tWAS->...
7 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

Filenet on Nutanix Hypervisor

Several ISA customers have deployed or planning to deploy traditional FileNet components on the Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor(AHV) due to cost advantages over VMware . While these deployments function as expected, customers are encountering support...
10 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Under review

Set a property on which the search result should be sorted in the IS-Connector for ICN

In IDM Desktop and ISTK there was the possibility to set a property on which the search result should be sorted. Unfortunately this is no longer possible in the IS-Connector for ICN. Our customer does not use ICN, but has his own frontend solution...
about 4 years ago in Content and Capture Services - other 4 Not under consideration

IBM Navigator / Edit Service OIDC Support

Today we are using Edit Service with SAML on Weblogic. We are in the transition to CP4BA and it is the company's rule to implement SSO with OIDC. We are requesting to enhance the Navigator Edit Service to support OIDC for SSO.
over 1 year ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Future consideration

Build an integration between IBM Content Collector and ADP/ADP Extension

We have many uses case where a LOB has documents stored in a network share and they need to be moved to FileNet. Step 1. If we could use ICC to process the documents into ADP so that they could be classified and have metadata extracted.Step 2. Pas...
about 2 years ago in Content and Capture Services - other 1 Not under consideration

GenAI Search Document Query Object

Provide an API that will allow for searching based on document properties and their values so the search can be incorporated into the GenAI Multi Doc process vs. having to query FileNet to get the document GUIDs and then call GenAI Multi Doc. This...
2 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted

IBM FileNet deployment in GCP cloud

Customer needs to use Google Cloud Platform as per business requirements. The request here is to add fsgroup configuration.
10 months ago in Content and Capture Services - other 0 Submitted