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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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Ability to See & Clear Relative Layout & Connection Docking by Activity

Provide ability to release a relative layout lock or connection docking lock from an object so it can go back to auto layout. Once you've locked an object's position relative to another object or moved a line's connection point, there's no way to ...
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Allow search for part of words instead of whole word

Search does now work for Japanese : need to be able to search with parts of a word
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Put Text on Gateways in Front of the Arrows

The text on the gateways is always behind the arrow and can be difficult to read. You need to adjust the wording a bit to get it to show more clearly, or move the arrows so there is no arrow coming out from the bottom of the gateway. The latter is...
about 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 6 Future consideration

Critical Path Analysis

After inserting values for cycle or work time, the system should be able to visualise and calculate the critical path of a process.
about 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Admin User List Reports Membership in Groups

Admins should have the ability in the user list to see where the users have been active, if that user is in any groups and what spaces they have permissions in.
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Space Documentation visible for Viewer

The description in "Space Details" (visible for all other roles) should be also visible for role "Viewer".
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Prompt for Business Unit while provisioning JIT license

When a new user is provisioning a Viewer license using SSO/JIT, they should be prompted for their Business Unit. Additionally, it should be required before accepting the request if account Admin configures it as a required field.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

To list the recently added Meta Data “ Assurance date” in Glossary

We have recently added a new metadata field called “Assurance Date “(choosing the Number property).However we could not find the same listed in Glossary (where we could see other Meta data items mapped as text property are listed in Glossary).We h...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Tags to reflect while exporting the diagrams (any format of export)

Tags to reflect while exporting the diagrams (any format of export) Currently while exporting the diagrams in word / excel the tag details are being captured in the sameHowever, Tags are not getting populated while exporting as PDF / PPT. Hence it...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 6 Future consideration

BlueWorks Inbound Process Links

The 'start task' (circle) in a process map should show links to all processes that can invoke the process (i.e. the list of processes that are currently listed in the 'where used' feature) in the same way as 'linked processes'. The exports (partic...
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Not under consideration