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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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Adding "extra signers" using the built-in DocuSign Plugin

The feedback from the field was that many customers like the DocuSign plugin. But currently our implementation offers only the access to static templates that are assigned to the user that is requesting a document to be signed. This means they hav...
6 months ago in Content Navigator 3 Delivered

SSO support for OIDC in Edit Services for Cloud Pak for Business Automation

Actually Edit services does not support SAML SSO authentication, requiring users already authenticated in Navigator to repeat the authentication when editing documents and when authentication and authorization are separated, this may introduce fur...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 3 Delivered

When you change pages on the ICN content list widget, go to the top of the next page vs. using the location from the previous page

The IBM Case Manager in-basket widget uses ICN content list widget to display the contents. If the In-basket has more items than will fit on a single page, when you navigate to another page, the view remembers the location from the page you were o...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

IBM Navigator supports mobile client browsers

IBM Navigator does not support mobile device browsers, which means HTML5 is not supported. From what we've used, IBM Navigator should become an application portal that will integrate Workplace, BAI and other product components. If HTML5 is not sup...
almost 3 years ago in Content Navigator 4 Delivered

Use of LDAP groups for IBM Content Navigator Administrators

We currently use LDAP groups to manage permissions in all CP4BA components, but ICN only offers the ability to add user IDs as administrators, not LDAP groups. In order to have a consistent approach for managing permissions for administrators in C...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 2 Delivered

Adding custom faceted filters in ICN Simple Search

The new ICN Simple Search only offers default faceted search filters (i.e. Class, Modified By, Modified On, Added By, Added On, File Type, and Size), but most users want to be able to filter on additional business properties. The simple search sho...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

Video streaming in Navigator for CM8 clients

Today's Navigator allows the streaming of videos stored in FileNet CM. But also CM8 clients see more and more videos saved in the repository. Since CM8 has also an API for streaming, it should be feasible to implement also a video streaming in Nav...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 1 Delivered

Navigation to folders filled in from the document properties dialog

From IBM Navigator, when a document is filled in multiple folders, a user can go in the "document -> properties" dialog, in the "folders filled in..." tab to see all location where the document is filed. From this dialog/tab with the list of lo...
about 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

External integration with Edit Services

A number of users view documents from an external application using the Content Navigator linking API. These same users edit a subset of the documents using the Content Navigator Edit Service. This solution currently requires the users to leave th...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered

Allow to change Entry Template during check-in

We currently use one Entry Template per document class for adding documents to a case, but once the user defines the Entry Template, it is locked in place upon document creation. If the user then wants to change the class of the document, he can n...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Delivered