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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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Add group feature in ICN search templates

The customer is designing search templates in ICN where we are using the "Add Group" functionality to add different groups in the search criteria so as to have the "Or match all of these properties" condition between the groups. For the above func...
6 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

Control how the IBM Content Navigator viewer properties panel is displayed

The customer would like to be able to control if the properties panel is displayed by default when the viewer is opened and edit the default size for the properties panel.
6 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

FileNet Viewer. Word Search inside of Viewer in Documents that are not PDFs

When preforming a CBR search or Simple Search for documents containing a text value or phrase, you are provided a hit list of the search. However, when you open a document that is NOT a PDF (ie: MS Word) you cannot search for the term inside of th...
6 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...
10 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.
12 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...
12 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...
almost 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

ICN's two transaction approach does exactly the opposite of "maximize performance" and causing large file upload large files (3gb and up) to fail with access_denied errors

ICN does creation of a document with content as two separate transactions, one in which an empty document is created and a second updating the document to add content and check it in. In that sequent the problem is that if the creator of the docum...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

Stop search screen reset on timeout

When a user times out in FileNet Navigator the screen is reset and all searches are results are lost and have to be reentered. This did Not happen when we were in Content Manager on prem. We are requesting that the search screen and results are un...
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration