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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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Ability to restrict file types when adding (uploading) documents using Entry Templates

The ability to restrict file types when attempting to add documents using Entry Templates can offer significant advantages to any organization such as below. 1) By limiting the types of files that can be uploaded, you can ensure that only relevant...
6 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Support for editing Office 365 tools directory online for self managed ECM environments

Many customer subscribes to Office365 as SaaS. They edit and store powerpoint or excel online without download the office tool on their Laptop. This also enables collaborative editing / co-authoring. For clients running ICN in self-managed environ...
8 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Option to load in memory on start objects blocked by com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.disallowAllFileServing=true OR fileServingEnabled=false

WebSphere Application Server Control Procedures within our company require that file serving be disabled when at all possible. We have found EASPI and other files are loaded this way when ICN loads page side, i.e. during login. If there could be a...
8 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

Allow drag and drop of folders with contents in navigator

End users usually upload large number of files and folders in ICN. Though ICN allows drag and drop of documents, users ae unable to do this with folders. They have to manually select each folder (create, if not available) and upload documents there.
10 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

WebSphere liberty support for IBM Content Navigator on AWS EC2

Our organization is migrating on-premise Content Manager to AWS cloud. We use Content Navigator along with Content Manager. As per official documentation for IBM Content Navigator 3.0.11, "WebSphere Liberty is not supported with the traditional IB...
11 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Display Document Lifecycle Policy and State in Content Navigator

Document Lifecycle policies can be assigned to documents in FileNet. While it is possible to view Lifecycle State, policy assigned, as well as promote/demote document through ACCE, the same functionality is not available when working in ICN. At le...
11 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Do not close browse window in Outlook Plug-in when opening and closing an archived mail

As a user I want to open an archived mail. From Outlook, I open the ICN Outlook-Plugin browse window, navigate through the folder structure to my archived mail and open in. The mail is opened in a separate Outlook-Window and in the background (in ...
12 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

ICN Bookmark URL based search support for full text search (CSS) and search property hiding

We plan to integrate IBM Content Navigator (with FileNet Content Manager repository) into a business application through ICN bookmark URLs, according to the broader strategy to access and update in the context of business processes. Two important ...
12 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

IBM CN for Microsoft Office task tab

IBM CN for Microsoft Office. The tasks tab will only show the sample FileNet review steps. We created our own Workflows, but those steps are not visible
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

recycle bin for IBM content navigator for microsoft office

recycle bin for IBM content navigator for microsoft office is not available. Documents can only be deleted.
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration