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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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Hashtag Feature in BlueworksLive

Team,We want to implement the hashtag feature in BlueworksLive. Currently we are utilizing the hashtag feature to enable process search. We want to expand the capability to enable us to click on the hash tag to highlight the related processes and ...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 5 Future consideration

Blueworks supports iOS browsers or provides a mobile app

Blueworks to support browsers on Apple iOS devices, specifically iPhone and iPads. Alternative a Blueworks mobile app should be provided for iPhone and iPad devices.
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Enable the Swimlanes on both sides of the process map for better scrolling

When the process map is too large and needs scrolling from left to right, it could be very useful to have the swimlanes on both sides so we know who the action lies with in the process.
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Creation of multi-layered custom properties

Currently custom properties can only be text or number properties (with one value). But there are multiple instances where the business requires to create properties which are multi-valued like a drop down or multi-choice or boolean values. There ...
about 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Functionality already exists

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 6 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".
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Can we add Risk name and description in metadata along with its severity which is already an existing feature

If we can include risk name and description in metadata then every time we extract the process and activity from bluworks it would be readily available for analysis of process improvement. It can help the analyst to have all the required informati...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Separate ability to set user access rights from "Manage and Edit Space"

It is not possible to allow users the ability to create their own sub-spaces, but prevent them from assigning their own user/group permissions. this results in lots of support calls when users or their colleagues cannot see content. Compounded by ...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Increase storage space

Our users have been using a lot of storage space for their process maps to the point where we ran out of storage space. About 99% have been images pasted directly into the Documentation tab and 1% have been documents. No videos are uploaded. My un...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Included decision table in word/pdf/ppt export

It would be good to be include the decision table when exporting a process. This behavior should be able to be toggled on/off using the configuration screen.
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration