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

Space Excel Export Numbering

On the Excel Export from a Space the supplementary worksheets like Process Items, Stakeholders, Systems etc… lists the Item Name that relates to each, but no unique ID for that Item Name. So, if in a given diagram where you have more than one acti...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Add Custom Message to the SSO Access Issue

We would like to include a link to our internal help desk and provide Blueworks Admin contact information for each area in the error message pop-up.
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Analyze By Comments and Documentation

Can only identify if an Activity Box has documentation or comments in Details if you open the Action box or view the process diagram in a documentation view. Would be great if the process diagram analyze feature also allowed the viewer to pinpoint...
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Ability to send message from throw (send) message event to multiple catch (receive) message events in one or more processes

In order for multiple spawned processes to be "linked" via send/receive message events, send event should be able to send message to multiple receive message events in one or more processes. Basically provide ability for "Multiple" event type.
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Separate Participants from Business Owners/Experts in Glossary (NOT DUPLICATE)

Currently Participants, Business Owners and Experts are all grouped together in the Glossary. Recently added feature allows us to "Warn users that enter non-preferred values", but it sets it for all three types. Participants are usually defined as...
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 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
almost 5 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...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

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.
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 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 ...
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration