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Digital Business Automation Ideas


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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Content Navigator

Serviceability -ICN Sync client related improvements

ICN sync client expects the configured URL to be http://hostname:9080/navigator/?desktop=sync If the URL populated is only http://hostname:9080/navigator/, it does not load any folders or download files. There is no message indicating that the URL...
3 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

CCx AI Chat should allow chat across Object Stores of multiple CCx domains

With CCx AI Chat well perceived, multiple of my clients are eager to discover use cases.  We deployed FNCM/CCx essentials Standalone on Containers in 3 domains world wide (EMEA, US, APAC) to cover business units, and each of the domains is (o...
6 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

CCx AI Chat should be exposed through bookmark URL / allow embedding as component into custom web application

New AI Features in CCx resonate well with everyone I talk to. However, not all users however use IBM Content Navigator as their entry point, many use cases start with a business application (3rd party). CCx should exploit options to expose AI chat...
7 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

Browse/Search feature - Enable the sort on document/folder class name

Hi, to check the case follow the scenario : - From ICN admin console Opened Repositories --> Browse --> Choose "Class" from the available properties - Open the ICN browse features, navigator to a folder containing documents and the Class col...
2 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

IBM Content Navigator and Change Class with Entrytmplates: original entry template should be set as default selection

When checking in a document with an entry template in the ICN, the original entry template is not automatically set as the default. Users are forced to manually select an entry template even when they have no intention of changing it. ### Current ...
7 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Under review

NMO should support new MS Office

NMO is a user experience well received by many business users of my client. Unfortunately, the new MS Office which Microsoft starts delivering does not support COM and VSTO add-ins. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/overview/off...
almost 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Business Automation Navigator: make the desktop default feature configurable in Platform and Content mode

EnvironmentCP4BA version: 24.0.1Navigator: 3.1.0, build icn310.0802.4Navigator mode: Platform and Content (navigatorMode 2)Configuration database migrated from IBM Content Navigator on traditional WebSphereReference system: IBM Content Navigator 3...
29 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

Add feature for exporting and importing favorites in ICN desktops

Often customers wants to work in several desktops where same repositories are used with the same favorites which is not possible between different desktops. So waht about an exporting and importing feature for that? This would help our customers t...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Add a Content Navigator custom URL to edit ands co-edit documents with Office Online Server (and Office365 SaaS in the future)

IBM Content Navigator allows users to edit Office documents with Office Online Server from the web interface; however, this functionality is not exposed through a supported custom URL.It would be very useful for customers to have a custom URL - si...
7 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Under review

Multiple documents via Docusign in Content Navigator

Select multiple documents to send via Docusign for signature in Content Navigator - Extension product: Docusign Plugin Users would find it helpful, to combine multiple documents (regarding one matter i. e. annual report or contract negotiations) i...
8 months ago in Content Navigator 1 Needs more information