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  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

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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


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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Support for specifying a pre-existing S3 bucket for an Advanced Storage Area in the FileNet FNCM Operator and Custom Resource

When automating or otherwise creating a FileNet environment in OpenShift it is not possible to specify a pre-existing S3 bucket to use as the storage for an Advanced Storage Area, the environment must be created and then the ASA added with the S3 ...
2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

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

JVM Argument Override for LDAP Search/Global Catalog Configuration

Allow for a filenet.gcd.ldapSearch and/or filenet.gcd.ldapCatalog JVM argument value to specify a different LDAP Domain Controller or LDAP DNS for the following reasons: IF LDAP services configured are down/dead/not availble, allows for reconfigur...
4 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

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

This Idea will reduce the TAT(Turn Around Time) significantly for CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) usage.

The Third Party Teams ,who integrate with FileNet through CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services), does not need to wait until FileNet Application Team/Admin Team gives assistance and says that this Particular Property Value is causing...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Add PostgreSQL as a supported relational database for Traditional (on-Prem) Content Manager (CPE) in addition to the Container release.

Adding PostgreSQL as a supported relational database would provide a low cost, open source option for the deployment of FileNet Content Manger and it is already qualified with the CPE container release.
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 2 Future consideration

FileNet should support customer managed encryption key for AWS S3 bucket upload and download of content.

FileNet should have mechanism to keep the encryption keys and also able to manage multiple keys in case multiple storage areas. This feature helps to maintain corporate security mandates. It's my understanding that there are several customers requ...
almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Functionality already exists

Add a warning about possible data loss when Removing a Property Definition from a Document Class Definiton

Users would be warned about the possibility that metadata could be lost when property definitions are removed from a Document class if the class it is being removed from is the only one using the property definition. On SQL server the column defin...
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration