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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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Exclude specific MimeTypes from being CBR-indexed BEFORE content is loaded from Fixed Content Device

We have several document classes that contain documents of a wide varity of mimetypes. The document classes are CBR enabled but it is very obvious that some MimeTypes within this document class are not valid for CBR indexing (i.e. images or videos...
almost 4 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

Avoid accidental disabling of Process Engine Workflow System

At a customer environment, an administrator had accidentally disabled the Process Engine Workflow system in ACCE. Enabling / Disabling Workflow System, and Enabling / Disabling Workflow System Traces are on the same dialog, at the same location, j...
4 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Remove Document from Content Assistant AI Index Through API

Over time documents won't be in scope for your Content Assistant use case but there isn't a good way to remove them from the AI Index. If you could create a sweep and call an API to remove documents from the index that would be a good enhancement....
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Add Page Number to Content Assistant Java API and GraphQL

Issue: When using the Content Assistant Java API and GraphQL in the response you don't get the page number for the document chucks that are returned. Not having a page number available means the end user has to open the document and do a find whic...
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

Content Assistant Feedback API Needed When Using Java API and GraphQL

Issue: When users are using Content Assistant through Navigator they can provide feedback (thumbs up, thumbs down and a comment) on the response of the chat feature. When using the APIs to integrate Content Assistant with a customer portal when yo...
5 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Submitted

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

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

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

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
11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 1 Future consideration

Coach view ECMFolderList doesn't permit to filter the CMIS content

Workflow Capability permit to work with ECM servers through the usage of the CMIS protocol. We are building a CSHS interface that uses the coach view ECMFolderList. Since our ECM is FileNet, we decided to hide some folder implementing the isHidden...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review