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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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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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FileNet Content Manager (CPE)

Allow Marking Sets to Support Boolean Property Values

Allow Marking Sets to use Boolean properties (true/false) as drivers for applying markings (e.g., IsConfidential, ContainsPII, LegalHold). Today this requires workarounds (string “Y/N”, 0/1, custom rules), which breaks type-safety and increases ma...
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Add GraphQL support to create and manage FileNet Marking Sets (and Markings)

We are using the FileNet GraphQL API to industrialize (automate) Object Store provisioning and configuration via CI/CD across multiple environments. We recently discovered that GraphQL does not allow creating/managing Marking Sets and Markings, wh...
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

FileNet CFS should support federation of FileNet Domains on Containers

Currently, federating multiple FileNet Domains requires CFS-ICI (Content Federation Services with IBM Content Integrator), which the latter not being ported to container platforms, according to Current Limitations on Containers documentation https...
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Support the use of cmisURI in repository.properties for CMIS spec v1.1

There is a functionality need for this feature and hence it was added/supported in CMIS spec v1.0. The same should be supported in CMIS spec 1.1 especially that CMIS spec 1.1 is recommended by IBM over spec 1.0.
about 2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Expose ASA GUIDs in document properties in ACCE

When using an ASA (Azure Blob Container storage in this case), should AntiMalware remove a file, it is necessary to alert the business owner of the deletion. the ASA GUID file name that would be returned by AV is not visible against document recor...
9 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

FileNet Content Manager domain option to remove "Key Management" configuration

As part of Proof-of-concept implementation, we enabled 'KMIP' configuration under P8 Domain > Key Management and successfully tested it in Non-Production environment. With complexity of the configuration and operational challenges, we plan to u...
12 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

FileNet Object Stores and definitions created by a CR Defintion

It would be really good have a FileNet Operator that created object stores and definitions based on a CRD in OpenShift with an appropriate operator. This would also help in the installation process making things far easier to debug.
almost 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Future consideration

FileNet Content Manager on Containers should allow tracking infrequent users

FNCM terms provide the concept of Infrequent Users, stating "Licensee must track accesses by Infrequent Users to verify that they meet the access limitations of Infrequent Users." In traditional environments, ILMTCollector/ILMTReporter are a means...
12 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

Derived property - precalculated transient property

It should be possible to define a transient property in the datamodel which value is calculated (using Java/JS) whenever it is read. (either via query, via fetch instance, ...) Partially it can be implemented using "custom search function", but it...
10 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Submitted

FileNet Deployment Manager (FDM) allow for one souce object store to many target object stores in half mapping.

Often there is a need to propagate the same object to multiple target object stores for data model consistency or for common configuration / objects shared and used across object stores, examples are: common classes, common property templates, com...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) Future consideration

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