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,

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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Ability to assign the review/approval tasks to Viewers without any approval or completion action requiring from them

On the process blueprint review, we can assign the tasks to Editors but there is no way to assign the tasks to Viewers. We need a feature where a task can be sent to a Viewer user with or without giving them any access to complete, approve or reje...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Allow User to cache SSO log in for a set amount of days

User mostly shares processes with people that have viewer licenses and they find it to be a waste of time to have to log in every single time they open a link. If the SSO settings could be changed to allow a user to open a process without logging ...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Numbering Feature

Customer played around with the renumbering feature, and did not like the fact that they are only able to re-number the 2nd + digits, It would be a great feature to be able to reset numbers vs manually renumbering and be able to edit the entire nu...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Show jpg or png from Documentation tab in Excel export

Currently when a process is exported to Word, the images uploaded in the Documentation tab in BWL are shown in the Word document. When the process is exported to Excel, a link to the image is provided in the Excel sheet 'Attachments'. It would be ...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Process Summary - Systems and Participants

The Process Summary screen is helpful and as another idea suggested it might be useful to split this into Process overview and Activity Detail for better clarity. One significant element that appears to be missing from the Process Summary view is ...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Enforce Start and End Numbering

We are looking to enforce Start and End numbering on our Blueprints. We can manually activate the "Include normal start and end events" option on the Numbering dialog per Blueprint which gives the desired results. Looking for a way to set this opt...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Ensure no Null values in user last login/invite data

many user have no date value in their last login/invite data. I understand this happens when a user accepts their invite but never logs in. Please leave the invited date in place for these users or capture the date they accepted the invite
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Requesting addition of technology symbols to support creation of system and architecture flows.

Requesting addition of technology symbols to support creation of system and architecture flows. Some of the symbols we are seeking to use: firewall, server(s), database(s), computer, processing unit, user input, mobile device, physical building, r...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Keep activity numbering on when in Analyze Mode

Turning on Activity Numbering is incredibly helpful, especially when communicating with users in building/updating processes. However, as soon as Analyze mode is selected the activity numbering is turned off. Keeping the activity numbering turned ...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Allow default view to be set at the account level when a link to a process is provided

Allow selection of which process blueprint view (Discovery Map, Process Diagram, Documentation) will be displayed when a link to a process is defined on Linked Process activities. Example, we have Discovery Maps that are basically an outline of al...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

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