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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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Would like be able to specify a default sort for ICN's work in-basket including whether the sort is descending.

This feature would allow users to have sort for the in-basket automatically applied without the user needing to click on the column headers.
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Make Simple Search Available for CM8 Customers

Our users search across multiple item types in CM8 (IBM Content Manager) to find their documents. For example, a user wants to review all documents related to policy number 123. Newer item types have a larger, resized policy number field which mea...
4 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Under review

configuration to disable ANY option in foldersearch

In case a user switches in a folder via “Property options” from ALL to ANY of the properties the search will be executed with an OR condition for each search field. Mandatory search fields are designed to force the user to use particular search fi...
5 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

IBM Content Navigator - WYSIWYG Mail Editor in IBM Content Navigator

The mail editor in ICN supports only plain text, but MTU Aero Engines AG as customer needs WYSIWYG functionality. A function frequently used by all users and end customers is sending emails directly from ICN. Unfortunately, the mail client in ICN ...
over 3 years ago in Content Navigator 22 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.
over 3 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

The IBM Content Navigator EDS plugin is designed to replace the CPE choice list

In the ICN edsPlugin code, udpatedChoiceList is only set to true if the json response has a choiceList property. It does not check the json response for the "udpatedChoiceList" attribute so that part of the response the service is ignored. The sol...
5 months ago in Content Navigator 0 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...
6 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Image and Custom Properties Display with single Click

Image and Custom Properties Display with single Click
11 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Add drag & drop to ICN Entry Templates (in addition to "choose file")

Our customer Freudenberg suggest to add a drag & drop feature to the ICN Entry Templates, in addition to the current "choose file" feature to add content. This would provide the user a better experience, similar to Box, where it is easy to add...
almost 3 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

Streaming of WAV files in Content Navigator

We need the ability to stream WAV audio files in Content Navigator. These files are stored in FileNet and can be downloaded through Content Navigator. However other audio formats can be streamed through the viewer. Having WAV files also available ...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration