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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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  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)

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CPE Java API should provide option to add client ID in order to identify originator of symptoms discovered in CPE server logs/traces

Running a FileNet Content Manager environment with multiple Business Unit applications and custom integration applications (Java API), it's not always obvious which CPE client application has originated a certain task. This might include for examp...
2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Update Security Folder when a document is moved in Navigator

We have a document entry template for Navigator that has the option to inherit from folder set. When the document is added, this works fine. If a new folder is created and the document moved, the document retains the old folder as the security par...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Cache choice list data on the client side to improve performance

We have a number of long-running queries, and while indexing is helping, additional gains could be achieved if choice lists could be cached.
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Allow FDM (FileNet Deployment Manager) using security principals to map marking sets from environment to environment (ie dev to qa).

Marking sets are unique to an environment and this is an easier way to make that association known
29 days ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Cleaning Process Engine Event Logs - Add option for leaving user defined log entries behind

This idea would be to add an option to the pelog cleanup program for the Process Engine Event log to leave user defined log entries behind. User defined log entries are defined in the documentation as log entries with a type field higher than 1000.
2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Certification of pure storage WORM use via S3 or other method for FileNet Content manager and CMOD

This is a request to expand the available WORM storage vendors available
3 months 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...
11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 3 Under review

GraphQL API parity issue. Need to allow more complex SQL queries

GraphQL API inner join query not returning all properties GraphQL Parity with Java API Problem Description Doing more complex SQL like a simple inner join query via the GraphQL API does not return information for properties that exist in the class...
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Under review

Content Engine Bulk Import (CEBI) needs the ability to escape a character

The default delimiter in CEBI is a comma. When attempting to import a text string that contains a comma, the batch fails
about 1 month 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.
11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration