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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)

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 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Future consideration

Support for FNCM Operator in separate namespace(s) to it's operands on OpenShift

On OpenShift deploying FNCM as on CNCF with no Cluster roles is not a supported configuration. FNCM when deployed on OpenShift requires Cluster Level roles (for Cluster level artefacts such as Routes). On a shared Cluster (multiple customers or mu...
about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Future consideration

Support FNCM S deployments on OCP without cluster role/privilege

The request is to officially support deploying FNCM Standalone, on OpenShift, but using the 'k8s' platform in the CR (without OLM obviously).The goal is to make it possible to deploy FileNet and the operator in a single namespace, with nothing mor...
about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Future consideration

IBM JDK 17 or latest version support for FileNet Content Management

FileNet Content Management currently supports only IBM JDK 8 with traditional WebSphere. Though IBM JDK 8 is long term supported the industry has already moved to the latest version of JDK. Currently only the liberty supports with latest JDK. Need...
about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Future consideration

IBM Filenet - product install is non-compliant to OpenSCAP

Dutch Tax uses RedHat Linux in combination with FileNet. Our Linux team keeps the environment continuously up-to-date to stay in RedHat support. However, this regularly causes problems with the rollout of our FileNet software. Our silent install s...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

convert multi-value property from default system table to its own table

this is a feature to persist multi-value property to its own table https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/filenet-p8-platform/5.5.x?topic=icped-persisting-multi-valued-properties-in-their-own-database-table However, for existing multi-value property, current...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Future consideration

CPE\CSS unable to index MS Word documents that have sensitivity labeling of "Highy confidential". Also, Daeja Viewer cannot open them.

CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: Customer has added several MS word .docx files to their FileNet CPE repository that have a sensitivity labeling of "Highly confidential". That means that only members of the customer's organization can open these files. See ...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Support ICN check-in and check-out with ICCSAP

I would like ICN(IBM Content Navigator) check-in and check-out functions to be supported in ICCSAP(Content Collector for SAP Applications). When "Use IBM Content Navigator" is unchecked in the ICCSAP logical archive settings, if a document archive...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Sweep Frameworkt - Introduce a new SystemField like "SweepStatisticLastModifiedDate" instead of using "DateLastModified" for just statistic updates

We discovered by chance that the DateLastModified of a Policy Controlled Sweeps states that the last change on that object was made on a public holiday, where nobody was working. Policy-controlled sweeps keeps also the corresponding statistics. We...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Not under consideration

FileNet support for Nutanix AHV vitualization technology

Iberdrola's FileNet enviroments are currently deployed in Red Hat Virtualizacion tecnology, the support of RHV ends next years, so Iberdrola wants to change to another virtualization technology, they have Nutanix AHV as the default vitualization t...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Future consideration