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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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Configurable support link / button for custom help page

The custom help page contains a button "Launch support portal" at the bottom right corner. There should be a way to configure this button so that it doesn't link to the IBM support portal but to a custom address. Also it would be nice to have the ...
about 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

Allow option for space permissions to be inherited by default

Currently it is a manual process to make a child space inherit user permissions by default. It can become quite a time intensive task to change all the permissions in all the nodes in a section of the space structure, if one decides to change the ...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Rename Blueprints within a Space when the entire Space is copied

When you copy a processes the process is renamed with a prefix of 'Copy of'. The same behavior occurs when you copy a Space for the Space name. However, the Blueprints within the Space Copy are not renamed forcing the user to rename one by one and...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

BWL to support creation of Ad-Hoc (Case) tasks

Several clients (notably Belastingdienst, the Dutch Tax Authority) have requested that BWL provides support to model Ad-hoc tasks (Case Style).
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Hyperlinks are not treated as hyperlinks

In various part of Blueworks Live where text can be entered, hyperlinks are not clickable.Notable areas are:- custom textfields- documentation- comments The only part where hyperlinks work is adding it as a policy and then adding the policy to the...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Functionality already exists

Activity details enhancement

We want to be able to view and print a process diagram showing activities with some of the related information visible on the diagram. The current Blueworks mechanism for doing this is unusable for more than one piece of information.
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 5 Not under consideration

Unique Naming for Downloaded and Exported Files

When downloading files from the tool. The file names should be unique where the content is unique. Request is to add Diagram and Documentation to the file names. Example: (Process Name) Diagram.(xxx) and (Process Name) Documentation.(xxx). Current...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

On track and overdue dashboard for entire team

There is no overview that shows all the overdue and on time activities.
almost 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Model Labels Field length and width adjustment

Customers have requested the field length of 8 for model objects be extended to 12 and field height adjusted a line or two.
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Add Custom Templates

As Blueworks is a tool that is used across our company, different departments projects are mapped from a specific view point or with a specific focus on how the Customer interacts with the process, or how a System functions etc. This leads to diff...
4 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration