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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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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

Spring Boot 4.1 Support in IBM BAMOE

Our organization is aligning with the enterprise technology modernization roadmap, which mandates adoption of the latest supported Spring ecosystem versions for security, supportability, and long-term maintenance. Currently, IBM BAMOE 9.5 supports...
12 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x 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

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

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

Enable GraphQL query on process vaiables

Need to query workflo data with GraphQL and specifiy criteria on process variable. Actually process variables are not queryable. Let say I have a Type candidate with fields : name, age, salary Than I have a process variable of type candidate Then ...
26 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x 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

Session timeout settings should be controlled by each account administrator in order to be in compliance with user company standards.

This is useful and would be applicable for all accounts because each company has their own standards for governance. and security. My account is not in compliance with my company standards, and I now have to apply for an exception which may not be...
about 2 months ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

Making hyperlink clickable in a pdf or Word doc

Currently, if a process diagram is exported to Word or a PDF and there is a sub process with a hyperlink, the hyperlink appears to only be active in text at the top of the page. Can we make the hyperlink active in the activity in the Word doc or P...
3 months ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

CP4BA front door (Zen) does not natively honor or accept tokens provided directly by external IdPs

Our partner applications consume CP4BA REST APIs to support key business functionalities. Currently, these partner applications authenticate using tokens issued by external Identity Providers (IdPs), such as PingFederate, and send these tokens to ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation Planned for future release