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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).


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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:

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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Publish/ Unpublish Status overview of maps

Status of the blueprints within a workspace. Example : Total Blueprints - 10, Published - 7, Unpublished - 3. Provide list of maps which are published and unpublished in the BWL.
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

A bulk update facility in updating same data fields with the same data for multiple process\activity boxes.

A bulk update facility is now becoming a must. We are waiting days and sometimes weeks updating the same data fields with the same data, and wasting hours and hours of time on this and this time can definitely be spent on more pressing items of work.
4 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

The ‘marque select’ tool: improvement opportunity could be if you create your select window left to right, it selects only items fully in the select window; if your select action is right to left, it would select items partially in the select window. (not a big improvement as you can use Ctrl+click now)

The ‘marque select’ tool: improvement opportunity could be if you create your select window left to right, it selects only items fully in the select window; if your select action is right to left, it would select items partially in the select wind...
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

The ‘select and move’ tool: because it’s a combined tool, it can sometimes create accidental selects/moves of process activities when you are intending to just move around the map

The ‘select and move’ tool: because it’s a combined tool, it can sometimes create accidental selects/moves of process activities when you are intending to just move around the map
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

The ‘select and move’ tool: if you are using this to move around the map and your pointer moves off the map window, and you return it to the map it remains “active” which can disrupt effectively moving around the map (this only applies to really large maps)

The ‘select and move’ tool: if you are using this to move around the map and your pointer moves off the map window, and you return it to the map it remains “active” which can disrupt effectively moving around the map (this only applies to really l...
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

CMDB Connections via APIs to regularly update the systems glossary

CMDB Connections via APIs to regularly update the systems glossary. We’d like to have a regular automated refresh of our system glossary based on our updated CMDB list.
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

4. Make axis font size larger, prevent text cut off (wrap text) – especially difficult when zoomed out or exporting a large blueprint to a PDF

Make axis font size larger, prevent text cut off (wrap text) – especially difficult when zoomed out or exporting a large blueprint to a PDF. Both the PDF and in BWL when you zoom out on a large map. When zoomed out or printed, the font size on the...
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Submitted

Bulk upload new users – would like to invite more than one new user at a time

Bulk upload new users – would like to invite more than one new user at a time
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1

Text Annotations - Allow for larger character count without losing all content when clicking out of the annotation

Text annotations – allow for sub bullets & larger character count without losing all the content (lose full annotation if you go over 800 characters and click out)
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Allow the descriptions added to metadata fields to be viewable in Analysis Mode

Currently you have to exit Analysis mode to see the descriptions that have been added to metadata fields that you just hover over to view. We would like this same functionality in Analysis Mode so as we trying to view certain metadata fields and f...
5 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration