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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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Add Signal Event Type

Add a Signal Event type to current event types in process modeling. Include interim, begin and end events. Also include Signal as a Boundary Event type.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Process App for multiple Blueprints

It would be very useful if you could use a Process App for multiple Blueprints by one click – for example. Currently only one Blueprint can be connected to a Process App and this is a big limitation.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

In the Analysis, provide the count of handoffs between swimlanes in the Process Map.

The number of handoffs, between participants or systems, is a metric for reduction and improvement in Lean analysis. A count of the handoffs is indicated by the change from one participant to another and is shown graphically in flow from one swiml...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Drag Endpoint onto Sub-process

Cannot drag an endpoint on top of a sub-process to draw the line.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Move Gateway Label

Want to be able to move label for gateways. Cannot move it at all.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Blueworks PowerPoint Export Linked Processes

Currently if I have a level 0 process with multiple linked subprocesses and I export it to PDF I have the option to include linked subprocesses which results in a multi-page PDF. The Word export has a similar option but the PowerPoint export does ...
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Enable Watson Translate on the template description

We have a good set of template availablehttps://ibm.blueworkslive.com/scr/home#!library:templatesHowever, the template description, sometime detailed, is available only in english.It would be good to enable Watson Translate on that page so that cu...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

More formatting freedom to move gate labels

Gate Labels: More formatting freedom to move gate labels so that they are not locked in position far away from the corresponding gate fork.
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Multi Select Option in Glossary page (Active and Inactive)

As Admins when we do Glossary cleanup, it is very difficult and time consuming when we select each Glossary items separately and action it (Delete/archive). If we have multi select option like buttons(like Merge buttons in Active Glossary). For ex...
almost 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Utilise Hierarchy Function for Processes

Use hierarchy view function for both spaces and processes so you can see list of process names within each space using the hierarchy function. Currently only available for Space's.
about 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration