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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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Support .NET Core for IBM P8 libraries

Upgrade IBM P8 .NET integration libraries to support .NET core. Since the DLLs are still using .NET 2.0 framework, its not even possible to write a wrapper and use them in .NET core. With .NET core becoming popular and the best option and most eff...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Entry template rendering in BAW 23.0.2 and ICN 3.0.15 (on-prem)

Additional properties that are of type ‘object’, are being displayed even though they’re not part of a layout. It would be easier to have the feature to toggle this on / off on the fly as opposed to making changes to the target class.
11 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

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

Allow disconnecting one Object Store instantly from the domain

FileNet does not allow you to instantly “disconnect” an Object Store from the domain. So I would like to submit an enhancement request for the implementation of this feature.
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 2 Future consideration

IBM FileNet CPE Option to Detect and Split-On-Upload and Merge-On-Download Large Files - Parallelize and Improve Upload/Download Performance

Content sizes continue to grow due to rich media like audio recordings, video recordings, large data and/or logging files, videos with transcriptions, documents with many pages including images and embedded content. An idea for IBM FileNet Content...
almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

FileNet Content Platform Engine Object Store Key Rotation Enhancement to Improve Content Key Protection and Reduce Need to Reprocess / Move Content for New Key

FileNet Content Platform Engine Object Store Key Rotation Enhancement to Improve Content Key Protection and Reduce Need to Reprocess / Move Content for New Key. What we understand is: There appears to be actually three levels of keys in a FileNet ...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

Add further roles for Role-based redaction in Filenet/ICN

Currently the only options for Role-based redaction are Editor (create and delete) or Viewer. The customer wants to be able to add roles that have the permissions below:Editor Group A: Members are only allowed to create new redactions; but reveali...
6 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

Allow pass thru of sql syntax using some kind of key work start/end structure to allow use of underlying RDBMS system capabilities

While using the search capabilities of FileNet Content Platform Engine, we have found some cases where the delivered SQL API for FileNet limits the capabilities of the underlying database software. Examples include parallelism, top XXX (row num li...
over 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration

Add "Save All" function to Administrative Console for CPE (ACCE)

Making multiple changes to objects in ACCE is often time-consuming due to the requirement to save each object which has been updated one at a time, instead of a function for saving all pending changes at once. There are often instances where the s...
7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

Ability to restrict the file upload of 0 kb or a corrupted file

Ability to restrict the file upload of 0 kb or a corrupted file & Ability to restrict the file upload larger than a specific size This feature will be helpful to avoid the ingestion of an already corrupted file to FileNet CPE.
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration