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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:

Search existing ideas

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,

Post your ideas
  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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Ablity to add the additional headers as an optional for the advance storage area for the S3 storage class

provisioning the ability for users to add the optional headers to specify a storage class in the x-amz-storage-class header either by jvm parameters or option s3 bucket configuration fields It will help lot of customers to reduce the transition co...
almost 2 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

CPE Object Store is not optimized documents with lots and lots of versions

Customer has versions series with 90,000 superseded versions and another case with 250,000. The objective is to delete all versions except the current version (want to delete 249,999 obsolete versions). Below is the diagnosis of the customer that ...
about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

FNCM Standalone on Containers should allow to describute Index Areas to separate PVs

Operating a multi-tenant FNCM environment on containers, client found issues with the PV on which CSS Index Areas are stored immediately affected indexing and search of all Business Units / Tenants attached. Being able to separate CSS Index Areas ...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future 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....
7 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

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...
over 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 ...
about 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

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...
about 3 years ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Not under consideration

Content Assistant hosted on IBM Cloud

Lack of trust for other vendors, want a certified and compliant Financial Cloud platform for their European business/ business partners.
8 months ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Submitted

Enhance the logging output for GraphQL client to include the response as well as the request in the logs.

Enhancing the logging of the GraphQL client to include the response will help trouble shoot issues related to requests. At this time a request can fail but there is no response output to determine why it failed. Development teams working with the ...
over 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Under review

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