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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:

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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Process Variants

Some process variants are acceptable variants (e.g. across countries, brands, severity or scale of spending or risk etc...) which may change how and by whom a process is executed. To circumvent this, I would have to duplicate the current process w...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live Not under consideration

ARSDOC QUERY to provide mapped values

When running ARSDOC QUERY to extract data from CMOD the option to pull out the mapped values as displayed on the client. We have a use case where we want to get the mapped values and not the database values. Using CMOD REST is not the best tool fo...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) Not under consideration

Allow configuration of automated check of properties on Process BluePrints

We have some properties that we require to be populated in certain instances. Right now we manually review for these to be present. It would be great if there were an option to automate these checks. For example, if Custom Property #1 is populated...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live Not under consideration

Federated Process portal task list refresh on events

Currently, the federated tasks list for work or any saved search is refreshed periodically (default: 60 seconds). This behavior is causing confusion for customers, as they are unsure whether their tasks are being completed until they manually refr...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

Integrate Open telemetry into BAW

Proactively Monitor BAW Server as per their business requirement
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

Enhancement to restore initial thumbnail view within the GUI without the need to use "hotkeys" to return to a normal view.

While in Datacap scan or verify UI with Thumbnail view enabled, we can toggle between pages of thumbnails and view the corresponding image. when we double click the page thumbnail to view a full page of the corresponding image, there is no way to ...
over 1 year ago in Datacap Not under consideration

Line breaks in activity text

For instances like quoting an email address, it would be beneficial to enable Alt+Enter to force a line break in the Activity text. Sometimes spaces will work to present this (Example 2), but I have had instances where Blueworks ignores me after 2...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live Not under consideration

Integration of Shared Data Model and Notation (SDMN)

The Shared Data Model and Notation (SDMN) by the Object Management Group (OMG) is an extension of the BPM+ standards (BPMN, DMN, and CMMN) that centralizes and standardizes data definitions across models. SDMN provides a single source for data ele...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition Not under consideration

Create nested BAW internal groups when creating BAW internal groups from a process application deployment

Internal groups are also created implicitly during a process application deployment if the snapshot includes security groups that do not exist on the target system. But, if those internal groups have nested internal groups, those nested groups are...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow Not under consideration

Text Annotations - Allow for larger character count without losing all content when clicking out of the annotation

Text annotations – allow for sub bullets & larger character count without losing all the content (lose full annotation if you go over 800 characters and click out)
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live Not under consideration