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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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Enforced TLS for BlueworksLive email

The UK Government's advice on email security includes the following: "Where possible, consider configuring your email service to force TLS between you and the organisations you regularly communicate with." (reference here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/...
about 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Enhance the Powerpoint process report

PLEASE SEE ENCLOSED DOCUMENT WITH SCREEN CAPTURES The current PowerPoint reporting method has some specific limitations:1/Any sub process with more than 8 activities does not fit onto the slide  2/The process map image is presented in the viewing ...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under consideration

Include Processes Linked by Message Event When Generating Documentation

Generating documentation (PDFs, Word, etc.) provides option to "Include linked processes (## processes)", but does not include processes linked by Message Events (Intermediate, Start nor Stop). When processes are related to parent - whether direct...
about 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Get User to Group relation displayed

It is easy to get the information which users are members of a group but there is no direct display showing in which groups a user is member of. A similar implementation as used for Glossary items "where used" showing the group membership would be...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Include coordinates in BPMN export

We would like to integrate Blueworks Live with other Enterprise design tools that support BPMN.We can of course use deep link but there are also situations where we want to import the diagram as BPMN 2.0 and then design other activities on top of ...
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Improved Process Discovery Map View

1. When a process have many milestones and many activities, a scrollbar is presented. When scrolling down to one activity, the Milestone header will be hidden. To be able to work with all different activities, we need to scroll up to see what mile...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

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 ...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 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...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

To increase space export limit

In BWL we have an option to export the space in the single excel file, but the current limit set is up to 3000 artefacts. We understand that this limit has been set post testing to ensure that running such reports would not impact the system perfo...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future 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...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration