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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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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...
12 days 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...
16 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Customizable activity box sizes in order view all text within it on the pdf exports - possible tooltip

The customer is really looking for a way to see all text within an activity box when it is exported to pdf. They're asking if they can customize the size of the activity box so it will be printed as is. Development comments for this: As per our im...
10 days ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

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...
19 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Target position in view after following linked activity/event

When following a message event link or clicking the "This process is linked from..." link at the top of the blueprint after navigating a linked process or even if following a URL that includes a direct link to an activity, Blueworks Live should po...
12 days ago in Blueworks Live 3 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...
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 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
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 5 Future consideration

All users can see who created a blueprint and who last modified it, over 90 days

Give all users the ability to view who created a blueprint and who last modified it, even it has past the current 90-day period. It is crucial to be able to see who created an existing blueprint so if another user has a process that overlaps or du...
7 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Feasibility in moving arrows on process diagram

Customer trying to move arrows form one place to another place ( based on business requirement) on process diagram , some time arrows are not moving , or some times when they move arrows diagram is getting messed up. attached screen shots with exa...
8 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Provide option for viewers to only display properties containing a value

Current limitation: When a viewer displays a process documentation and selects "Show All Details" all property fields are being displayed no matter if they contain a value or not. This is negatively impacting the overview and is not consistent wit...
9 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration