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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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  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)

FileNet and Content Cortex container deployments should create Gateway API ingress on CNCF Kubernetes cluster

Currently for FileNet container deployments on CNCF Kubernetes clusters, the FileNet Operator can create the Ingress Nginx configuration for the FileNet endpoints in the Kubernetes cluster. However, Ingress Nginx has been retired as of March 2026 ...
2 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Provide an option so IBM License Service does not create the CR

We’d like a change to the license operator logic to check if a cr was provided and throw an error if one is not present and if one is present parse it and attempt to use it. Or create a new OPR flag to ONLY dump a template cr IF a site asks it to....
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 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...
about 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Ability to monitor the navigator app probes with http port Since ROSA 4.17.15 the GO has been upgraded and enforces stricter cipher policies, and RSA-based ciphers (especially those without forward secrecy) are now blocked by default. That’s why the probes on port 9443 (HTTPS) are failing, and switching to HTTP on 9080 becomes essential to get the operator up.

Ability to monitor the navigator app probes with http port Since ROSA 4.17.15 the GO has been upgraded and enforces stricter cipher policies, and RSA-based ciphers (especially those without forward secrecy) are now blocked by default. That’s why t...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

It would be preferred to be able to make a choice list value as deprecated or similar so that it could still be valid but not selected for new docs. 

ADMINISTRATION CONSOLE > Object Store 1. It would be preferred to be able to make a choice list value as deprecated or similar so that it could still be valid but not selected for new docs. 2. Looking to make "choiceless" items that are valid v...
about 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Solution packaging and deployement using both BA Studio and ACCE configuration

The goal is to automate as much as possible the CP4A/BA Studio solution deployment. For the moment, when you design a solution within BA Studio, for the document management part, you can only configure the document types, associated properties and...
over 5 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Support of Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Systems to run against Read Only RDBMS and File Storage

Typically on premise systems have either a Production/Disaster Recovery or Production/Bunker/Disaster Recovery live / production system deployment model. In this model, if changes (upgrades, patches, JVM arguments & configs, web container patc...
about 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

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

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...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 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...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted