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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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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...
almost 3 years 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 ...
over 1 year ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Compound document manual creation/management (ICN)

Manual compound document creation will allow end user to manually create compound documents from within Content Navigator’s out of the box UI
almost 5 years 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
almost 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Add support for .heic formatted files to the Navigator viewer

We have users who are storing photos from their IOS devices in their native format which is: image/heic, image/heif Can the virtual viewer support that format? They do open in Windows Photo Viewer.
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Integrated open source office

ECM (ICN) in cp4ba should be integrated with open source office to realize online office functions out of the box. If customers need to use more powerful functions, they can purchase licenses by themselves.
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

ICN support on WAS Liberty

WebSphere Application Server Liberty is not supported with the traditional IBM Content Navigator web application , but it is installed as part of the ICN Container. We need assistance getting the ICN supported on Liberty.
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 1 Not under consideration

IBM Navigator plugin loaded status and dependency of plugin details

After restart of profile of WebSphere all plugins need to be loaded back by administrator ,If team can have smart way to load all plugin and also indicate dependent plugin and notify through email or SMS to admin if any plugin losses connection.
over 2 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

ICN theme to support changing of font size, text color, etc. by user performance

Currently, only user can select pre-defined theme styles, default or some classic layouts only, user cannot further adjust font size, color or style such as bold etc.
almost 3 years ago in Content Navigator 0 Not under consideration

Multilingual support in IBM navigator

On the IBM navigator homepage, we found that workplace and Bai features are displayed in English instead of Chinese. Obviously, this does not achieve multilingual internationalization, which will make the user experience with poor English very po...
almost 3 years ago in Content Navigator 2 Future consideration