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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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Blueworks Live

Allow attributes on relationships between models, and also on relationships to glossary items

A linkage between a process maps and an property value (e.g. a system), or between two process maps is currently possible in BWL. The value of those relationships would be greatly enhanced if we could store custom property values against those rel...
7 days ago in Blueworks Live Under review

Separate permissions for users to create Process Blueprints, and Journey Models

We have two separate taxonomies in Blueworks - one for Journey models, and one for process models. Currently "Process" users with Editor licenses can create Journey models in the Process taxonomy and conversely "Journey" users can create Process m...
7 days ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

Reporting Capability in Blueworks Live – Library Distribution of Processes

Request for reporting capability available in Blueworks Live that can help identify how processes are distributed across different libraries.
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

Enhancement Request: Process Map Relationship Extraction (Linked From / Linked To)

Business Need We have many large business process maps where activities are linked to other process maps across multiple blueprint levels. Currently, it is difficult for business users to identify and track these relationships without manually rev...
19 days ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

Need Plotter format in PDF export of the Blueprint from UI

Recently, IBM introduced the capability to export Blueprints with documentation in PDF format through the Blueworks Live (BWL) UI, which is a valuable enhancement. However, we have observed that the process map is currently exported as a static im...
20 days ago in Blueworks Live Under review

Enhancement Request – Extend AI Metadata Population to Process Summary Level

With the recent IBM enhancement, AI can automatically check and populate metadata at the activity level when generating blueprints. We would like this capability to be extended to the Process Summary level, as process-level metadata is equally imp...
20 days ago in Blueworks Live

Remove auto fill metadata's from AI generated Blueprints

With the recent enhancement, AI can generate Blueprints from images and text. However, during blueprint generation, the AI is automatically populating activity-level metadata such as Cycle Time, Cost, Risk, and other attributes. These are sensitiv...
20 days ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

To remove character restriction in Text to Blueprint (with AI)

IBM recently introduced the AI-powered Text-to-Blueprint capability in Blueworks Live, which is proving highly effective in converting textual process descriptions into process blueprints. However, the current input limitation of 5,000 characters ...
20 days ago in Blueworks Live

Develop API endpoints to support user and license management requirements?

develop the following API endpoints to support user and license management requirements? Get User License Develop an API endpoint to retrieve the current license assigned to a user. Modify User License Develop an API endpoint to update the license...
22 days ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

Add an Owner attribute to Blueworks Live workspaces, visible in the UI and accessible via API.

User unable to see or set an Owner field when opening a workspace (specific Workspace) or through any API.
6 months ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release