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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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  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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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 ...
about 16 hours ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

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

Would like to have a multi-thread upload for large documents across filenet APIs using GRAPH QL.

Our business users would benefit from it because they sometimes have large documents to upload.
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Under review

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

Filenet & Azure Blob storage integration

As of now, FileNet and Azure Blob can be configured together only using shared key. However, due to known risks and issues shared key access is disabled in some organizations. Alternative way of making this connection (e.g. using Azure Active Dire...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 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
23 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

GraphQL query choicelist values

GraphQL (unlike REST) allows you obtain several information about object in one request. But it doesn't allow to obtain display value of choicelist property (when query for folders/documents or other records) Moreover it doesn't allow to obtain ch...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Add support for PING Directory Server as a LDAP Directory Server for our traditional WebSphere FileNet implementation.

Our current implementation uses VMM. We would like to be able to configure PING as a Native Directory Server in ACCE. Our target state is Containerised FileNet which does not support VMM. This request will simplify the transition to target state. ...
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 2 Future consideration

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 ...
2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Support FileNet standalone on VM to be deployed on Liberty

Client has a large FileNet footprint and would like to change the underlying app runtime for their non-containerized VM deployment from WAS to Liberty. They see externalization of configuration as one of the primary benefits.
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Not under consideration