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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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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

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

.Net Core support for FileNet

In April 2019, Microsoft released the latest version of the .NET Framework and announced that there will be no new updates to its features. While they offered to continue to support, this only means that bug fixes and security patches will be prov...
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

FNCM - Provide an option to re-enable HTTP ports (9080)

Starting with FNCM 5.5.12, the HTTP ports are no longer exposed on the service created by the operator (and will apparently be removed from the pods as well).But there are use cases for which HTTP traffic is required:- on dev environment, for trou...
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Support for FNCM Operator in separate namespace(s) to it's operands on OpenShift

On OpenShift deploying FNCM as on CNCF with no Cluster roles is not a supported configuration. FNCM when deployed on OpenShift requires Cluster Level roles (for Cluster level artefacts such as Routes). On a shared Cluster (multiple customers or mu...
7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Support FNCM S deployments on OCP without cluster role/privilege

The request is to officially support deploying FNCM Standalone, on OpenShift, but using the 'k8s' platform in the CR (without OLM obviously).The goal is to make it possible to deploy FileNet and the operator in a single namespace, with nothing mor...
7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

IBM JDK 17 or latest version support for FileNet Content Management

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

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

convert multi-value property from default system table to its own table

this is a feature to persist multi-value property to its own table https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/filenet-p8-platform/5.5.x?topic=icped-persisting-multi-valued-properties-in-their-own-database-table However, for existing multi-value property, current...
9 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

FileNet support for Nutanix AHV vitualization technology

Iberdrola's FileNet enviroments are currently deployed in Red Hat Virtualizacion tecnology, the support of RHV ends next years, so Iberdrola wants to change to another virtualization technology, they have Nutanix AHV as the default vitualization t...
9 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration