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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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Request to have a List View Functionality in Blueworks Live to have a list view for maps rather than tile view only.

Allow more maps to be viewed in a single screen.
about 8 hours ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

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.
8 days ago in Blueworks Live 2 Planned for future release

Disable automatic link generation in Blueworks Live processes

The customer (Blueworks Live user) has requested that the automatic creation of hyperlinks between process steps should be turned off.Currently, when a step is added or edited, Blueworks Live automatically generates a clickable link to that step i...
14 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Make font and line color of linked processes/message events hypertext color (blue: active / purple: visited)

Viewers may not understand the functionalities of Blueworks Live, but keeping with web standards for hypertext links are generally blue/underlined or purple/underlined for visited links. Changing the fill color defeats the purpose of color-coding ...
15 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

End point can link to an activity in different map/process

This case is very useful when there is continued activities in another map/process instead of end the process. Users need to continue the activities by following the another map (Not from start but the second or third activity in a new map). When ...
23 days ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Allow for autocorrect/grammar check.

This would benefit everyone, because it is a small but powerful part of making the processes more sharp and professional. It is really not efficient to have to go through and manually change spellings of things because we can't click on the correc...
about 2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Provide a REST API for audit log per artifact type

As an admin, I need to be able to provide an auditor all the list of changes that were performed for a specified artifact type
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Ability to support Complex Object types for custom properties

As an editor I need to be able to create a custom property like Address which is comprised of: Street Apartment City Country ZipCode
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review

Provide a mechanism that allows to create custom logic required for properties validation

Properties / Metadata associated to blueprints requires some validation to provide controls and guardrails when Editors are working with these artifacts. As an Admin I want to be able to define the logic associated to different fields that are par...
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Ability to extend the Governance Process to the creation/build phase of a discovery map or blueprint

Currently, the governance process app follows a "Post Creation" approach, which means that after a blueprint has been created, then it transitions to a "Validation" phase or approval phase. As a Blueworks Live user a new blueprint or a change to a...
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration