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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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DocuSign/IBM Integration: Use document name as subject line

When sending a document from the DMS via DocuSign, the predefined text "Complete with docusing:" appears in the subject line, but the document name is not filled in (see png-file #2). In our opinion, this is an error, as we have observed that when...
2 months ago in Content Navigator Needs more information

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...
3 months ago in Content Navigator Needs more information

The DocuSign signature status should not always be visible in the magazine view of search results

When viewing a search result in the magazine view, the value of the Signature Status property is shown as text and always visible. There is no option to hide this property from being displayed there. This can be confusing for users because the val...
3 months ago in Content Navigator Needs more information

SRVC: List user roles for task manger user when the logged in user accessed the ping page in an ICN container deployment

List user roles for task manger user when the logged in user accesses the ping page in an ICN container deployment. This is not populated consistently. This was working is the traditional Websphere deployment
4 months ago in Content Navigator Needs more information

SRVC: List ICN desktop(s) that are associated with a given custom plugin on the plugins page

List ICN desktop(s) that are associated with a given custom plugin on the plugins page. When we should be able to see a list of all the desktops that use a plugin when we go to details of each plugin
4 months ago in Content Navigator Needs more information

Allow CP4BA Admins to add a Custom PVC to the BAW Authoring and Runtime

We have deployed CP4BA v25 - BAW in our OpenShift cluster. As of now we are using the file path that is mounted by default (/opt/ibm/bawfile) to store and access BAW application specific configurations. We would like to add additional paths (custo...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Needs more information

Add possibility of Customization of filebeat.yml

Hello It looks like that possibilty of the configuration of filebeat is minimal, only enable it by define filebeat-output.yml and add external output. It is not possible customization of filebeat.yml file by adding aditional processors for logs pa...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Needs more information

Enhancement Request: Support for Viewing Large Excel Documents in IBM Content Navigator 3.1.0 (CP4BA 24.0.0.x)

Summary: Requesting enhanced support for previewing large Excel (.xlsx) documents within IBM Content Navigator using the Daeja ViewONE viewer. Problem / Business Need Currently, large Excel documents do not render properly in ICN using Daeja ViewO...
6 months ago in Content Navigator Needs more information

Ability to perform a pre-check activity as part of the governance process app or independent to a governance process

As a blueprint editor, I want to be able to finish working with a blueprint and start a review process outside of BlueworksLive. As an editor I want to finish editing a blueprint and have the ability to trigger an external system or application ...
6 months ago in Blueworks Live Needs more information

Ability to UPDATE multiple glossary values without a Rate limit restriction

Currently, there is a rate limit documented here. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/blueworks-live?topic=authoring-glossary-valuescategory This restriction is preventing the proper maintenance of glossary values when UPDATES are needed to different cate...
6 months ago in Blueworks Live Needs more information