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

    Shared component Library

    Currently Activities and gateways can be reused in the shared component library. However, it is critical to add the functionality to allow sub activity objects to be reused. For example if I create an activity that has 10 sub activities, or a "chu...
    4 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    Parent Activity Inheritance

    There should be a functionality that rolls up the data from the object beneath it. For example, if I have a milestone that has 10 activities underneath it and each of those activities are performed by a different system. Blueworks should automatic...
    4 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

    Ability to select and edit multiple activities at once

    There should be functionality that allows you to select multiple objects and edit the details behind them at the same time. Either multiple select activities, add details and it populates the details for all that were selected, or open multiple wi...
    4 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

    Add new scope to /glossary-values/{value-id}/usage API

    Currently the glossary values API only returns usage in Active models - it does not include historical usages (e.g. in snapshots). When we try to clean up un-used glossary items, the first step is to identify those which were created by glossary i...
    10 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

    AI-Native Task/Process Suitability

    Most organizations today are trying to identify how and where to apply AI in their processes. Businesses are simply providing AI assistants to employees to improve productivity, but not looking at the process itself to transform it from manual to ...
    7 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

    Enhance Process Diagram Visualization with Connector Color Customization and Rich Text Annotation Formatting

    Blueworks Live provides effective process modeling capabilities; however, diagram readability can become challenging in large or complex process maps containing multiple alternate paths, escalation flows, integrations, and annotations. We propose ...
    9 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

    Allow uploads of text documents to generate process with AI

    Currently new processes can be generated by AI using an image or text. Expand the capabilities of the AI to read documents such as .docx, .text, .pdf, and others.
    13 days ago in Blueworks Live 1

    Allow account admins to define template for Documentation view when generating a process

    Give account administration the ability to create a template that should be used in the Documentation view of all processes generated with AI.
    13 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

    Glossary Bulk Delete Feature

    Currently, there is no option to bulk delete a glossary item that is in use. If a glossary value is referenced across multiple process flows and activities. For example, used 100 times across 20 processes, the administrators must manually navigate...
    about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

    Word Wrap Participants in Swim Lanes and Milestones

    In the Participant and Milestone sections, longer labels automatically increase the size of the corresponding area, even when it contains only a single activity. This can make process diagrams less readable and results in unnecessary space consump...
    20 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

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