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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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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 4 years 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...
7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

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.
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 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. ...
over 1 year 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

Vault Support for custom code running in the CPE

When implementing Code Modules for the Content Engine, sometimes you want to integrate a backend system which requires an authenticationAt FOITT we have multiple of these integrated Code Modules. It would be very helpful with a vault integration t...
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Certification of pure storage WORM use via S3 or other method for FileNet Content manager and CMOD

This is a request to expand the available WORM storage vendors available
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Allow FDM (FileNet Deployment Manager) using security principals to map marking sets from environment to environment (ie dev to qa).

Marking sets are unique to an environment and this is an easier way to make that association known
6 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

Support connecting CPE on containers to CSS on VM (traditional)

CPE on containers can store all the business data outside of the cluster's PV, but not CSS: the indexes must be stored on a PVC.Not all Kubernetes or OCP cluster provide persistent storage that can be used for business data, for various reasons: r...
3 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration