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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

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Handle and display compoud documents (Parent-child-connection)

At the moment, the handling of compound documents in the IBM Content Navigator via Cloud Pak for Business Automation is not very convenient and continuously in the IBM Content Navigator. The display as well isn't that useful. In the attached docum...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 2 Future consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

Allow us to use our own PKI certificates with the Navigator Edit Client Service

This would allow us to manage ourselves, on our own time frame, when the Edit Client Service certificates expire and remove the dependence on the provide IBM certificate.
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

Mark documents that have annotation(s) in content lists with a symbol

Users would like to see in search result lists that a document has annotations without the need to open every document.
9 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Content Navigator Configuration & Deployment tool support on Shared Network Drive

Customer has an architectural requirement to install and deploy Content Navigator on Shared Network Drive which is not a supported method until now.
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Customer wants to be able to sign documents from Content Naviagtor

Currently Davita has to use DocuSign for all signatures and every signature has a cost. If there was a way to include a signature option with a custom plugin or with Daeja, this could save the customer having to pay for every signature.
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 1 Functionality already exists

Business Object usage in Navigator

The backend (FileNet CE) allows the definition of custom objects that can be added as multivalued properties on a document class. However, this kind of document properties is not supported by ICN. The support of this custom object properties must ...
almost 4 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

SharePoint webpart to Push content to CP4A

Today, the SharePoint is limited to the possibility to list and Search documents sotred in P8. However, as SharePoint is the collaboration platform to create content in the company, we have to provide the capability for him/her to push the docume...
over 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Dark mode theme for Content Navigator

In addition to the default theme, users wants to have a dark mode theme as most applications are offering this display (for both energy consumption and eyes comfort)
over 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Show ICN Pluigin Names. Plugin IDs and Version information on the Ping page

Currently to gather this information you need to look in multiple places Plugin Name (Display) from the plugins page Internal names from the Ping page Plugin ID's are only available by turning on Debug and restarting ICN to capture it.
about 4 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration