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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)

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Create a single official fix pack for CMIS on top of 3.0.7 iFix 07 where performance enhancement along with other fixes(security updates, stability fixes, and updated features)

Fine-tune the CM8 connection creation and connection pool management for CMIS in order to better handle higher concurrency and thread execution. Currently, we have observed slowness in establishing connections and contention when acquiring connect...
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Under review

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...
10 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 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...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Add support for PING Directory Server as a LDAP Directory Server for our traditional WebSphere FileNet implementation.

Our current implementation uses VMM. We would like to be able to configure PING as a Native Directory Server in ACCE. Our target state is Containerised FileNet which does not support VMM. This request will simplify the transition to target state. ...
almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 5 Functionality already exists

GraphQL query choicelist values

GraphQL (unlike REST) allows you obtain several information about object in one request. But it doesn't allow to obtain display value of choicelist property (when query for folders/documents or other records) Moreover it doesn't allow to obtain ch...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

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...
9 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Active Active Usage of FileNet Workflows across different OCP Cluster during the Workflow Transfer, Region Initialisation etc

The customer TTB is implementing CP4BA FileNet Environment in Active Active PROD Setup across two OCP cluster in different Data Center. Currently its noted that they can run active/active for Process Engine tasks during runtime operations like sta...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration

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.
9 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

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