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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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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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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...
5 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Some CPE Timeout Setting which can stop CPE looking for NAS file system or path if NAS filers are down/offline

This is very useful when NAS filer going down, and can keep CPE function well or provides service as usual.
12 days 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...
13 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Additional setting within the audit definition to capture LDAP user access during content retrieval.

Additional setting within the audit definition to capture LDAP user access during content retrieval. It could enhance traceability and compliance for sensitive document access
14 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Provide a java class/method that can create a teamspace based on a template, usable from an event handler or navigator service

It appears most/all of the code to create teamspaces is embedded in Content Navigator. That requires someone to navigate a UI to create a teamspace. This idea is to provide a simple Java entry point that takes a teamspace template and allows you t...
21 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Ability to have multiple NAS mounts and use more than one PV/PVC on a CPE container for file storage

We have multiple NAS mounts on one traditional WAS CPE server. We are in the process of upgrading to containers using the IBM FNCM Operator; however, there is a limitation to the CPE deployment where you can only have one PV/PVC assigned which mea...
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Avoid accidental disabling of Process Engine Workflow System

At a customer environment, an administrator had accidentally disabled the Process Engine Workflow system in ACCE. Enabling / Disabling Workflow System, and Enabling / Disabling Workflow System Traces are on the same dialog, at the same location, j...
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Support connecting CPE on containers to CSS on VM (traditional)

CPE on containers can store all the business data outside of the cluster's PV, but not CSS: the indexes must be stored on a PVC.Not all Kubernetes or OCP cluster provide persistent storage that can be used for business data, for various reasons: r...
2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration

Create a single official fix pack for CMIS on top of 3.0.7 iFix 07 where performance enhancement along with other fixes(security updates, stability fixes, and updated features)

Fine-tune the CM8 connection creation and connection pool management for CMIS in order to better handle higher concurrency and thread execution. Currently, we have observed slowness in establishing connections and contention when acquiring connect...
2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Ability to monitor the navigator app probes with http port Since ROSA 4.17.15 the GO has been upgraded and enforces stricter cipher policies, and RSA-based ciphers (especially those without forward secrecy) are now blocked by default. That’s why the probes on port 9443 (HTTPS) are failing, and switching to HTTP on 9080 becomes essential to get the operator up.

Ability to monitor the navigator app probes with http port Since ROSA 4.17.15 the GO has been upgraded and enforces stricter cipher policies, and RSA-based ciphers (especially those without forward secrecy) are now blocked by default. That’s why t...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted