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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

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Is there a way for administrators to disable or restrict the PDF export (Print PDF) option for Viewer users?

Currently, there is no option to disable or restrict the PDF export option for Viewer users in IBM Blueworks Live. This limitation poses a challenge for administrators who need more control over document sharing and export permissions. Are there a...
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

AI Generated and Import(as RAG) Process Activities & Documentation

Every customer has existing process documetation that is in other tools and word documents and improved over years. Positioning a new process documentation tool fails when we cannot utilize this knowledge captured over years. It is understandable ...
7 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Provide ability to not include archived users in user export

When exporting user lists it includes archived users but almost 99% of the time I don't need the archived users so I have to delete them from the CSV file so I can work with the data. While not a huge deal, it would be a time savings to be able to...
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Allow linking between process flows using send/receive link event.

Blueworks Live should allow linking between blueprints using the send/receive link events much like message linking works but not defined as a message. The biggest problem is there’s no way to link multiple sequential flows via a link event to ano...
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Request for a separate feature to map organizational roles and hierarchy flows.

Currently, IBM Blueworks Live focuses on process mapping and does not directly support hierarchical organizational charts. This limitation poses a challenge for administrators who need to visualize and manage organizational roles and hierarchy flo...
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

looking for a feature which it can trigger an email to respected owner name when you put any new comment @ Owner name for any process or approval flow

looking for a feature which it can trigger an email to respected owner name when you put any new comment @ Owner name for any process or approval flow It actually helps, as some times , people are not knowing that they need to review some comments...
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Increase the amount of exportable rows in excel format in IBM Blueworks from 3,000 to 6,000

This will reduce the number ofhighly manual clean up and reconcillation exercises that instititutions with a large number of spaces need to perform.
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review

Enhance new governance functionality

The new governance functionality is a great new feature that we were missing since we introduced BWL in our company. Nevertheless there are still some limitations that are holding us back from activating it. Current limitations: When activating th...
10 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Hover over summary of space (roll up totals)

There is an existing capability in Blueworks Live where you can hover over a space title, in the space hierarchy view, and see some of the details within that space. I think having the total number of blueprints that roll up to that space would be...
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Create a new end point in the API to get all Groups and Users Data in just one call

We are looking the way to get in just one call to your API all the user data and the group data to work it in our side. we are currently using this call https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/blueworks-live?topic=blueworks-live-api
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 5 Future consideration