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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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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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  1. Post an idea.

  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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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

OpenSearch with CP4BA Filenet - Indexing and Search enhancements

GDA is the new common document and archive platform for the belastingdienst. GDA uses OpenSearch instead of (or in addition to) Filenet DB queries when searching for documents. GDA functionality requires to search by any property - and business us...
12 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

ACCE should allow the possibility to create a property template of type object with cardinality LIST.

ACCE should allow the possibility to create a property template of type object with cardinality LIST. In our case management system, we create data entities for people and organization that also contain information about their addresses. We find i...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

Support for Huawei S3 storage

We want to migrate from a 'Traditional Content Platform Engine' to a 'Containerized Content Platform Engine' environment. There is need to store our documents on a S3 storage solution. Our (on premise) S3 storage solution is based on Huawei Storag...
almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

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

Cigna would like the CPE to update the list of default mime type to include Apple's "heic" file types

Any customer who adds "heic" file type into the CPE
10 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

Cleaning Process Engine Event Logs - Add option for leaving user defined log entries behind

This idea would be to add an option to the pelog cleanup program for the Process Engine Event log to leave user defined log entries behind. User defined log entries are defined in the documentation as log entries with a type field higher than 1000.
7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

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

Support FileNet standalone on VM to be deployed on Liberty

Client has a large FileNet footprint and would like to change the underlying app runtime for their non-containerized VM deployment from WAS to Liberty. They see externalization of configuration as one of the primary benefits.
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Not under consideration

Retention Settings of Snaplock device are cached even across CPE restarts

Dealing with a case we became aware, that changing the min/default/max retention times of a Snaplock volume did not reflect in FCD trace. Traces show that the retention times are still compared with the old settings the snaplock device had before....
4 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted