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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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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 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

Request for Navigator Integration in Adobe Acrobat, similar to our existing Navigator integration for Microsoft Office (NIMO).

The client is requesting functionality similar to what we offer for Microsoft Office applications, known as Navigator Integration for Microsoft Office (NIMO). Specifically, they want the ability to add a menu item within Adobe Acrobat that connect...
30 days ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

For container deployments, make it possible to store the Task Manager logs in the same directory than the Liberty logs

In container deployments, logs are usually captured from the pod's standard output by a log shipping mechanism. All the logs that are stored in ${server.output.dir}/logs/${hostname} (those are Liberty variables), such as the Liberty logs (console....
about 1 month ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

Allow searches created by Navigator to include Custom Objects

We need to allow a group of Application Administrators the ability to Edit properties on custom objects. Yes we could give them ACCE, but ICN is a much nicer end user interface, and they are already using it to search for documents. Here's an old ...
2 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Ability to Set ACL on DocuSign Actions

Current Limitation: DocuSign actions are not currently governed by user access control. Desired Behavior: Implement Access Control Lists (ACLs) to govern DocuSign actions. Users without the appropriate access level should be restricted from perfor...
3 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Ability to Retrieve Combined PDF documents when multiple documents are sent for signature via the DocuSign plugin

Current Limitation: The plugin does not currently retrieve combined PDFs when multiple documents are sent for signature. Desired Behavior: The plugin should be able to retrieve combined PDFs that include the original documents, signed documents, a...
3 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

Add additional functionality DocuSign Plugin

Need to have the ability to: 1) Allow the user submitting the document for signing to designate who the recipient is. Does not work in 3.1 2) Allow the user submitting the document for signing to edit the Email Body 3) Allow the user submitting th...
3 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration

The ICN stored search displays the Boolean operators between the groups and the individual criteria only in edit mode. It should be visible both Edit mode and while opening normal stored search.

The issue is that, when you create a search that has property groups, as long as the search is in Edit mode by the creator/owner of the search the Boolean operators within the group and between the group and the individual criteria are visible. Bu...
3 months ago in Content Navigator 0 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.
4 months ago in Content Navigator 1 Future consideration

Make Simple Search Filters configurable.

This would improve the usability of the Simple Search for Org.
4 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Future consideration