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  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

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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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Workspace FileNet Content Manager (CPE)
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Created on Apr 23, 2025

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IBM Filenet - product install is non-compliant to OpenSCAP

Dutch Tax uses RedHat Linux in combination with FileNet. Our Linux team keeps the environment continuously up-to-date to stay in RedHat support. However, this regularly causes problems with the rollout of our FileNet software. Our silent install scripts are often surprised by underlying OS changes.

A concrete example: the mountpoint /tmp must be protected, so that applications cannot just start from it. 
However, IBM FileNet software such as IBM Content Navigator still uses executable files in /tmp. This clashes with RedHat's lifecycle management (LCM) vision. Moreover, the IBM documentation on this is incomplete.

We assumed that IBM products had been adapted to this since the introduction of OpenSCAP by RedHat, but 15 years later this is not always the case. In the IBM documentation, we sometimes find ways to modify temporary directories via environment variables, but not for all products. This leads to a lot of unnecessary searching.

IBM sometimes advises to temporarily mount /tmp without the noexec option, but that is not practical in our automated and continuous production environment. 
We also install new versions on running production systems without service interruption, so that temporarily circumventing security measures is not an option.

In short: how can we prevent these surprises in the future?

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