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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


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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.

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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)

configure a Credentials Manager using a Web Identity Provider in FileNet Content Platform Engine 5.7 to avoid managing and rotating static HMAC access keys for our Advanced Storage Areas. Our FileNet deployment runs in a GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) cluster on Google Cloud Platform.

We are planning to configure a Credentials Manager using a Web Identity Provider in FileNet Content Platform Engine 5.7 to avoid managing and rotating static HMAC access keys for our Advanced Storage Areas. Our FileNet deployment runs in a GKE (Go...
16 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Allow Marking Sets to be added to existing FileNet properties

Hello, We would like IBM FileNet Content Platform Engine to allow administrators to associate a Marking Set with an existing property, and not only when the property is initially created. Today, if a property has already been created without a Mar...
9 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Enable Support for Secrets Store CSI for FNCM Standalone CNCF

To ensure feature parity with other DBA products (ODM on CNCF - existing; CP4BA - considered), the option to integrate FileNet Content Manager with external secrets stores that support Secret Store CSI Driver for additional security is important. ...
7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Under review

Make DNS resolution behavior configurable for FileNet P8 CPE directory configurations when using LDAPS

FileNet Content Platform Engine currently resolves configured LDAP/LDAPS hostnames into individual IP addresses when a DNS alias with multiple A records is used. This behavior is acceptable for standard LDAP failover scenarios, but it creates a li...
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

FCM Operator creation of truststore ignores duplicate secret entries

It seems the FCM OPR will automatically try and combine all the secrets (LDAP, DB, FCM, etc...) and in this case all those secrets all point to the same truststore - with ALL certs in them, (i.e. they are already combined by the site...), in your ...
4 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Renaming a group in Okta causes the corresponding FileNet group reference to become orphaned after SCIM push to CP4BA.

When a group is renamed in Okta and pushed through SCIM / IdP to CP4BA, the renamed group does not maintain the same effective linkage in FileNet. As a result, the original group reference in FileNet becomes orphaned, which can affect access tied ...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 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...
9 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Automate the cleanup of the console and messages logs created under the podname directories

Logs are created in /opt/ibm/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/logs for each pod. As pods are shutdown and restarted during kubernetes maintenance or other work, additional log directories are created, leaving the old directories in place. This requir...
4 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Request to Enhance Logging Parameters Documentation and Feature Support

Dear IBM/FNCM Team, The current documentation for Logging Parameters only references a limited set of configuration options. However, there is a requirement to support integration with Elasticsearch using additional authentication mechanisms such ...
25 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Hybrid Solution Fixed Content Storage (Retention) with Advanced Storage Area (Staging)

Enhance fixed content device storage to utilize advanced storage areas for staging vs a localized path / file storage location as currently designed. This would utilize the streaming aspects of advanced storage, eliminating local operating system ...
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Future consideration

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