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

Ability to have an automated process to archive and delete artifacts

As and admin, I want to be able to trigger a "cleaning task" that will archive artifacts based on the specified retention policy As an admin, I want to be able to trigger a "cleanning task" that will delete artifacts based on demand or based on ...
5 months ago in Blueworks Live Needs more information

Ability to define expiration date of any artifact and a retention policy per artifact

Part 1: Expiration date As a user I want to be able to determine an expiration date of any artifact that is created: Blueprints, DMN, Process Apps, etc. As a user I would like to have a single view or report where I can see the list artifacts ...
5 months ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

The new AI Button Location

The new AI button location is in the way of the process model. It often sits on top of text and the model needs to be moved in order to see what is behind it. This button would be better if located with the help section of the screen or in the whi...
12 months ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

Automated email to Business Owners & Space Mangers from Blueworks Live for Annual review of process maps

For financial institutions and banks, process maps play a critical role in managing day-to-day business operations. To ensure these processes remain accurate and relevant, they must be reviewed and updated annually. To support this, we use a metad...
7 months ago in Blueworks Live Functionality already exists

To be able to tag other Blueworks users when you add a comment to a process diagram.

All users would benefit from being informed that there is a comment for their attention, because presently the comments are not always picked up by the required users immediately. This could work by allowing the commentator to tag the required Blu...
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live Future consideration

Make font and line color of linked processes/message events hypertext color (blue: active / purple: visited)

Viewers may not understand the functionalities of Blueworks Live, but keeping with web standards for hypertext links are generally blue/underlined or purple/underlined for visited links. Changing the fill color defeats the purpose of color-coding ...
3 months ago in Blueworks Live Not under consideration

Undo from Accidental Deletion - does not exist.

Current pain point that is super frustrating. Accidently key press that deletes an entire structure and there is NO WAY to undo that within the Discovery Map Tree Structure. When you accidently blow away a structure - there appears to be no way to...
8 months ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

Requesting to include Artifact ID in the artifact change grouping in the Blueworks Account Activity Reporting API

Requesting to include Artifact ID in the artifact change grouping in the Blueworks Account Activity Reporting API. We encounter duplication records in Activity log API extract. The assume duplication records show the same data of 2 different activ...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live Planned for future release

Allow linking between process flows using send/receive link event.

Blueworks Live should allow linking between blueprints using the send/receive link events much like message linking works but not defined as a message. The biggest problem is there’s no way to link multiple sequential flows via a link event to ano...
11 months ago in Blueworks Live Future consideration

Request for a separate feature to map organizational roles and hierarchy flows.

Currently, IBM Blueworks Live focuses on process mapping and does not directly support hierarchical organizational charts. This limitation poses a challenge for administrators who need to visualize and manage organizational roles and hierarchy flo...
11 months ago in Blueworks Live Future consideration

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