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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)

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Cyberark JDBC Connector enhancement

The Cyberark Credential Mapper connector would allow us to automate password rotation for all of our jdbc connections in Filenet. See the following article: Credential Mapper for WebSphere Classic: https://docs.cyberark.com/AAM-CP/Latest/en/Conten...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Provide a Virtual Instance Configurable Limit on Number of Concurrent Sweeps Allowed

We have observed, within a site that if multiple sweeps are running and restarts of JVMs happen during sweep processing, all running sweeps can potentially realign to the first active JVM post restart and therefore overload the JVM/Server. In case...
almost 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

FileNet Content Platform Engine Object Store Key Rotation Enhancement to Improve Content Key Protection and Reduce Need to Reprocess / Move Content for New Key

FileNet Content Platform Engine Object Store Key Rotation Enhancement to Improve Content Key Protection and Reduce Need to Reprocess / Move Content for New Key. What we understand is: There appears to be actually three levels of keys in a FileNet ...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Site Oriented Configuration Items Instead of Domain Level

Fixed Content Devices, configuring the URL to connect to HCP for instance, would be good to either A) have a fail over URL property (try A, if A doesn’t work try B) OR per site/jvm structure have site A connect to A HCP Head and site B connect to ...
almost 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Export WebSphere Application Server Network Deployed Configurations to Container YAML

Converting on premise WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Network Deployed (ND) configurations to Kubernetes supported container platform YAML requires manual collection of configurations like Data Sources, Name Spaces, Connection Factories, Enviro...
almost 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Fixed Content Device Staging using Database Storage Location

With the move to containerization we are finding that support of and implementation of NFS or other mounted file systems like Network Attached Storage (NAS) or Storage Attached Network (SAN) are no longer acceptable. We have requirements however f...
almost 3 years 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...
about 3 years 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

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