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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.

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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.

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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My ideas: FileNet Content Manager (CPE)

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ACCE shouldn't pull the entire Isolated Region configuration initiating a Workflow Search

When a CPE environment has a lot of objects (queues, rosters, event logs, etc.) in an Isolated Region, initiating a new Workflow Search in ACCE will take a long time. This is not noticeable when a smaller number of objects exist, but gets exponent...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

CPE: JUL Logging should be enhanced with operational functions similar to the former Log4J-implementation

Since Content Platform Engine has changed the underlaying logging framework from Log4J to JUL there are several important functions missing that existed before with log4j standard configuration : Logrotation (i.e. daily) It's very important to adm...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Have direct SAML authentication support for FileNet APIs

Right now FileNet APIs only support Kerberos as SSO authentication. However, these authentication protocols are becoming outdated compated to more advanced authentication prototcols like SAML. However, the FileNet documentation mentions there is n...
over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Add Maven Repo to CPE installations

It’s hard to share code and tools on source code repositories because there is no standard repo set up for the libraries for the content and process engine. They are not on Maven Central, for example, for a good reason. They are proprietary. In AC...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Navigator for Filenet & CSS unable to find results when wildcard *(asteriks) is in searched value

Volvo business users expect to use wildcard while searching in CSS. Example: Searched value: e1*1230/2012*2019/1892*0151 When indexed value contain asterisk sign as part of value, it causes problem during the search, and Volvo knew that this funct...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

Create a user-dictionary for UI elements translation.

When changing the system language, only the prebuild/vanilla textual elements are translated. This became a problem when the customer needs to use the solution in a multi-language setting because the labels or any textual elements created by the u...
7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Implement a P8 #Creator place holder

A business partner has a requirement where they do not want the creator user to be the owner of a document, but they still need to apply permissions to the creator on that document. The current #Creator-Owner place holder is too broad for their ne...
over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

Master Key Rotation

FileNet CPE supports encryption at rest for content by integrating with Tales System as one of the option for Key management. As per the current feature available Master Keys stored in GCD can't be rotated. Due to this if they key gets compromised...
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Add an ability to check the CBR-status of a document in the full text index

Related to case TS008281004 we have the problem that there is no chance (confirmed by L3) to check if a document is correctly inserted into the full text index. We need a tool or consitency check that enables us to check, if a document and all its...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Exclude specific MimeTypes from being CBR-indexed BEFORE content is loaded from Fixed Content Device

We have several document classes that contain documents of a wide varity of mimetypes. The document classes are CBR enabled but it is very obvious that some MimeTypes within this document class are not valid for CBR indexing (i.e. images or videos...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration