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:

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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,

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  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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A bulk update facility in updating same data fields with the same data for multiple process\activity boxes.

A bulk update facility is now becoming a must. We are waiting days and sometimes weeks updating the same data fields with the same data, and wasting hours and hours of time on this and this time can definitely be spent on more pressing items of work.
5 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Allow the descriptions added to metadata fields to be viewable in Analysis Mode

Currently you have to exit Analysis mode to see the descriptions that have been added to metadata fields that you just hover over to view. We would like this same functionality in Analysis Mode so as we trying to view certain metadata fields and f...
6 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

To be able to tag other Blueworks users when you add a comment to a process diagram.

All users would benefit from being informed that there is a comment for their attention, because presently the comments are not always picked up by the required users immediately. This could work by allowing the commentator to tag the required Blu...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Create a Linked Process 'FROM' an activity, so that the new Process inherits the Description and Input/Outputs

Scenario - I have a Level 4 business process... and I want to create a linked process (Level 5) for one of the Activities... (aware I can create a sub process in the same model.. but in this case I want separate models for variant control) I was t...
5 months ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

The ‘select and move’ tool: because it’s a combined tool, it can sometimes create accidental selects/moves of process activities when you are intending to just move around the map

The ‘select and move’ tool: because it’s a combined tool, it can sometimes create accidental selects/moves of process activities when you are intending to just move around the map
about 2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

The ‘select and move’ tool: if you are using this to move around the map and your pointer moves off the map window, and you return it to the map it remains “active” which can disrupt effectively moving around the map (this only applies to really large maps)

The ‘select and move’ tool: if you are using this to move around the map and your pointer moves off the map window, and you return it to the map it remains “active” which can disrupt effectively moving around the map (this only applies to really l...
about 2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Process diagram with meta data

A view of the process blueprint as a 'Discovery Map' or 'Process Diagram' including all metadata associated with each process step. Ability to view the map and its meta data in a pictural form with linkages to details.
4 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

To create a exportable account backup of all artefacts and structure, so the account owner could create a account backup, which might be restored even in another Blueworks account.

As an account owner would like to have an option to backup my account and export the back in a form which might be restored in another Blueworks account (e.g.: in case user has multiple accounts or opens new account). The back up should contain al...
10 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Wrap Text for Metadata

For Text Metadata fields, having the boxes wrap text would allow for a smoother user experience.
7 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Allow Renaming and Deletion of Snapshots

Allow the ability to rename an existing saved Snapshot. Sometimes we may have entered a typo or just want to enter a clearer description of the previously saved Snapshot. Also permit deletion of a previously saved Snapshot. Number of times we sav...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

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