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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).


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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:

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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,

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  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

ICN should allow users to modify the document class via Entry Template

We have a business user case in which we aim to let users rectify initial categorization mistakes or switch categories to sub-document types. However, IBM Content Navigator (ICN) lacks a built-in feature for end-users to alter document class, nece...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator Future consideration

Set default document class to “My Custom Document Class Name” when adding new documents in IBM Content Navigator / BAW

In IBM Content Navigator (ICN) or BAW, when users add a new document, the default document class is currently set to “Document”. For our client, most new documents should belong to the “My Custom Document Class Name” class, but users must manually...
6 months ago in Content Navigator Not under consideration

Improve edit service configurable temp path

What we can do is to improve for this: Since we can't avoid popping up the 'Save As' window, we can only try to optimize manual settings/steps in option 2 to make the Temp file path configurable for the end user. The current temp folder(C:\Users\#...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator Future consideration

Write out the month (e.g. Jan, Feb, Mar...) when displaying the date

Display all dates as 13-May-2024 (instead of 13.05.2024) The month should be displayed in Chracters then as a number. Many other systems have this option, for example Jira, see example attached.
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator Future consideration

Improve Entry Template loading speed by optimizing client-side validation

The client has a custom document class with over 200 properties. When attempting to load the Entry Template referencing this custom document class, or when viewing properties for documents added using this Entry Template, it consistently takes 7-8...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator Future consideration

Make Simple Search Filters configurable.

This would improve the usability of the Simple Search for Org.
almost 2 years ago in Content Navigator Needs more information

IBM Content Navigator (ICN) for MS Office (NMO) Outlook-Addin adds the wrong MIME-type for an email

When uploading an e-mail to ICN using NMO in MS Office, the MIME-type property of the resulting document in FileNet is set to 'application/x-filenet-filetype-msg'. However, when adding an email in the ICN desktop, the file has the correct mimetype...
almost 2 years ago in Content Navigator Is a defect

Translation mechanism for ICN custom menus

When changing regional settings, no translation mechanism exists to manage localized values of custom menus is ICN. The custom menu value should be able to be localized, and not be a fixed value. For example : I create new actions through a plugin...
almost 2 years ago in Content Navigator Is a defect

Make the IBM Content Navigator Edit Client Service temp-path configurable

It's by design that the ICN Edit Client downloads documents to the %TEMP% and %APPDATA% directories. It would improve usability to make the app/temp folder configurable in the Edit Client's configuration file. For security reasons the default loca...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator Future consideration

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
3 months ago in Content Navigator Needs more information