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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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Multi processes in a space data analysis , Pls add ID at activity level in each "items" "Process items" "Stakeholders" "Systems" "Cycle Time" sheet

Currently when I export space to excel report I would like to compare "items" "Process items" "Stakeholders" "Systems" "Cycle Time" of each processes in space (see in "Example comparison" attachment) but with current excel report separately and ha...
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Displaying of Large Number of Search Results

When a large number of search results are presented, the system offers a "Show More" option. There's no dividing line to determine where the original 25 ends and 26-50 begins. Even if the first 25 was removed and only 26-50 showed (so 25 at a time...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Blueprints/{blueprint-id} API to return custom activity numbering in JSON

Our team uses Blueworks Live for custom process modelling on behalf of clients. Some of this requires generating custom Blueprint documentation using the data from the Blueworks Live API. This documentation is generated on-demand and uses the Blue...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Improve the Weekly Activity changes notifications

The administrators of a BWL account can register to receive weekly mails about the activities that were performed on the account during the week.However, some improvements could be implemented with regards to this feature: 1) When there is no acti...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Ability to launch a process app across multiple processes

Our team are starting to use Process Apps within Blueworks Live to assign workflows and tasks to users (mainly to create a reminder to review a process). However, we would need to launch these within each individual process, it would be useful to ...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Exclude glossary updates from model Last Modified metadata

It would be very useful to be able to use the Last Modified Date property of artefacts to show when a model should be reviewed, but this is not currently possible as every glossary update can change this date. Please consider having a modified dat...
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Functionality already exists

Model Labels Field length and width adjustment

Customers have requested the field length of 8 for model objects be extended to 12 and field height adjusted a line or two.
about 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Require Policies to Have Unique Names

Currently policies can have the same name which can create a confusing list of policies in the glossary. Don't allow duplicate policy names.
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Status sign next to Blueprint name

The idea is to have a status sign meaning Work in progress (the hammer sign) and Approved (for this one a new icon would be needed) next to Blueprint name, similarly to the Published sign. Thanks to this any user will see if a Process (like approv...
about 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Display of metadata values in PPT extract.

Currently the PPT extract from BWL process map lists only the below four metadata values:Participants, Inputs, Outputs, and ProblemsWe would require other metadata values also like Systems, Control points to be included in the list. We would want ...
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration