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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)

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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...
about 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

CPE Object Store is not optimized documents with lots and lots of versions

Customer has versions series with 90,000 superseded versions and another case with 250,000. The objective is to delete all versions except the current version (want to delete 249,999 obsolete versions). Below is the diagnosis of the customer that ...
10 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Content Platform Engine Storage Area Metric Count Anomalies Correction Script

During ingestion and deletions we often see miscounts in the storage area metrics, leading to for instance negative counts in a storage area if swept content from an area to another area (change of device type, migration to object storage). We hav...
over 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

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 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

IBM JDK 17 support

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...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Ablity to add the additional headers as an optional for the advance storage area for the S3 storage class

provisioning the ability for users to add the optional headers to specify a storage class in the x-amz-storage-class header either by jvm parameters or option s3 bucket configuration fields It will help lot of customers to reduce the transition co...
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...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

FNCM Standalone on Containers should allow to describute Index Areas to separate PVs

Operating a multi-tenant FNCM environment on containers, client found issues with the PV on which CSS Index Areas are stored immediately affected indexing and search of all Business Units / Tenants attached. Being able to separate CSS Index Areas ...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

CPE REST API for Content Management

This will be helpful for moving towards REST w.r.t Add/Update/Delete/Search Documents when moving to cloud architecture. Already there is a BPMREST API. Looking for similar one.
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Support .NET Core for IBM P8 libraries

Upgrade IBM P8 .NET integration libraries to support .NET core. Since the DLLs are still using .NET 2.0 framework, its not even possible to write a wrapper and use them in .NET core. With .NET core becoming popular and the best option and most eff...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration