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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).


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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:

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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,

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  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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My ideas: Blueworks Live

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Allow sorting of documents in policies by name

Within a policy documents are only sorted by date. The sorting shall also be possible by name of the document as e.g. in the process overview.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Enhanced support for Objects as per BPMN 2.0 Specifications

It would be ideal if IBM Addresses the known BPMN 2.0 Compliance shortcomings as listed out on the support website https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS2MKC/com.ibm.bwl.doc/topics/bpmn_import_map.html For Reference the BPMN 2.0 Specificat...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Graphical Data Objects (per BPMN spec) instead of or in addition to Input / Output properties.

The BPMN specification defines the Data Object and Associations that allow the author to clearly articulate the production/consumption/association of abstracted data artifacts. Since most business processes are data aggregations especially across ...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Admin Ability to Disable File Attachment

Admin users should have the ability to disable file attachment in spaces they control.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Configurable text / support link in notification mails

Task notification mails currently have the following line included at the end of the mail:'Please do not respond to this message. This mailbox is not monitored. If you have questions about this message, please contact Blueworks Live Support' (with...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Customized start page for Viewers

Editors and Contributors can set their preferred page as start page. Please apply this function also to Viewers.
about 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Hierarchical dropdowns for custom fields

We are requesting the implementation of hierarchical drop downs, such that a selection of a 1st level dropdown spawns a 2nd level dropdown based upon the 1st level selection, and then the selection of the 2nd level dropdown spawns a 3rd level drop...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Include decision model and business rules table when exporting process diagram as a PDF

In process blueprints where decision tasks are used, we would like to be able to see the decision model and the business rules table when we export or print the process diagram as a PDF. This will add value to the overall process visibility.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Video capture and voice over capabilities for the Playback Mode

It would be nice to have the capabilities of recording or capturing the flow in the Playback mode. Also, it would be nice to be able to record a voice over as well for the flows captured.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

See the # of items in a Space without having to open the space.

In the Show Space Hierarchy view, the number of items in the space is displayed when you hover over the space name. Would like this same capability when within a Space View, so if the space has sub-spaces you can hover over a sub-space and see the...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration