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

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.
6 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.
5 months 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...
24 days ago in Blueworks Live 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...
5 months ago in Blueworks Live Not under consideration

Add @mention functionality to comments

Addressing comments/tasks directly to other users by mentioning them within a comment would be a great feature and make collaboration even more efficient. Ideally mentioning users in a comment would trigger an email notification and create a task ...
2 months ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

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 ...
6 months ago in Blueworks Live Future consideration

Introducing Role Management

We need to have an option to create/manage role for admins. The 2nd part of the attached spreadsheet shows how it should look like.
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

Enhance the blueprint export API, so that API can return result directly in PDF format and there is no need for docx-pdf conversion

Currently our business is facing issues with regards to a Formatting change done in IBM which resulted in broken data with their application.
about 1 year 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...
about 2 months ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

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