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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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FileNet Content Manager (CPE)

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ACCE should allow the possibility to create a property template of type object with cardinality LIST.

ACCE should allow the possibility to create a property template of type object with cardinality LIST. In our case management system, we create data entities for people and organization that also contain information about their addresses. We find i...
7 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Add "Save All" function to Administrative Console for CPE (ACCE)

Making multiple changes to objects in ACCE is often time-consuming due to the requirement to save each object which has been updated one at a time, instead of a function for saving all pending changes at once. There are often instances where the s...
8 days 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...
21 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Enhance the logging output for GraphQL client to include the response as well as the request in the logs.

Enhancing the logging of the GraphQL client to include the response will help trouble shoot issues related to requests. At this time a request can fail but there is no response output to determine why it failed. Development teams working with the ...
26 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

AWS S3 Bucket with Object Lock and in Compliance Mode connected as a Fixed Content Device Storage to CPE, map CPE Indefinite Retention to AWS S3 Legal Hold Flag

Currently indefinite is not allowed or supported from CPE to AWS S3, the CPE value of 9999-12-20 12AM UTC is sent to S3 and S3 complains that the date value is not allowed as S3 has a maximum value of 100 years in the future for retention date. In...
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

Ability to restrict documents download for specific users/groups.

Ability to restrict documents download for specific users/groups. One of the customer Exxon Mobil had a requirement that some of the documents restrict to download from the application through user/group permissions
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

Support for specifying a pre-existing S3 bucket for an Advanced Storage Area in the FileNet FNCM Operator and Custom Resource

When automating or otherwise creating a FileNet environment in OpenShift it is not possible to specify a pre-existing S3 bucket to use as the storage for an Advanced Storage Area, the environment must be created and then the ASA added with the S3 ...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

FileNet tolerance for multiple LDAP directory configurations in case one of LDAP configuration is down

Please refer to previous FER https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/BACSD-I-104 In some users scenario, Filenet has multiple LDAP Directory configurations,DCOs. For some directory configuration only for external user authentication, LDAP server might not be ...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

FileNet Upgrade Blue/Green Deployments

Problem Statement We currently run FileNet on Openshift. We have a blue/green deployment strategy when upgrading openshift, so our customers have 100% uptime when we perform our upgrades. Traditionally, IBM upgrades, and specifically upgrades that...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration