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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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Change default color of IBM BW

Hi team, Ive learnt that IBM BW tool can support BPMN 2.0 but in fact, I find many notations missing such as manual task, message task and we have to use different color (manual task = yellow color, message task= orange color) for these tasks.Besi...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Notifying User that a Process or Space has been shared.

In BWL, I have shared a Space, and or a Process by 'adding users'. My assumption was that they would receive a notification with a link (just like you would in Box). But this does not happen. I now have to go back to the process or space and captu...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Increase Word Document Information (Approval table and cover)

We are using "Process App" to launch process validation workflows.We can see the approval status in the "Work History" of each blueprint (Click on "Select a view or action for this process" > "View Work History") We would like to include in our...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Expand Word Footer to at least 150 characters

Expand word footer to at least 150 characters.
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Process Time Issue

Hi Team To preform high level analysis on each Blueworks Live process, we really heavily on the Microsoft excel exports of process data exported via the 'Microsoft Excel Process Data (.xls) V2.0' export feature. We have encountered an issue with t...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Improved search functionality in IBM BlueworksLive

Our organization uses widely IBM BlueworksLive as the standard process documentation tool. Many processes have been created, many accompanying attachments are stored in the system. The user needs a quick and exact identification of the process rel...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

To add "Business Unit" field in "Invite New Users"

Now we have this "Business Unit"field in the "Update User settings field" in Admin tab. But if we have this "Business Unit" field in the "Invite New Users", it will be helpful and will be more effective. It will save more time, when we have to add...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Shortcuts to processes from one space to another

Ability to create shortcut links to processes from one space to another space. This allows for multiple definitions/perspectives of space management but prevents from having to create additional blueprints to create links to those processes.
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Separate Publisher and Editor Permissions In BlueWorksLive

On the manage users page, our team would like an additional category that will give administrators the option to give specific users the permission to publish separate from permission to edit in a space.
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Blueworks space/diagram creator history

System: Blueworks Live Actor: All Blueworks Live users Currently, the history of who created a space or a diagram is lost as soon as another person edits the space or the diagram. The history of who created the space/diagram is important to us bec...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration