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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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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...
about 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Functionality already exists

Allowing copying and pasting of multiple images from outside BWL

System: Blueworks Live, component: Process Documentation It is impossible to copy and paste multiple images (png. or jpg. format) from outside of BWL (MS Word, PowerPoint, Snipping Tool). When selecting ONE image using CTRL+C (or Copy button) and ...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Admin view of ALL work - not just work in my queue

I'm admin for Global Sales Incentives Account. We use processes to manage some approval requests. For example, if a process drafted in the construction space needs to replace a now-dated process which is currently in the Production space, a user w...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 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...
over 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...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Adding BPMN 2.0 Shapes

There is only a limited selection of shapes BPMN 2.0 Shapes available. It would be beneficial to have the palette of all shapes. Also, having the ability to have separate swimlanes/pools and child swimlanes, this is currently covered by the specif...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Show Number of Results

Show number of results when clicking on a tag. Number of results are only shown when a search in processes for a term is done.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Search Feature in User Group

Allow for a feature to search users in the User Group section.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Tagging Enhancement

Right now we do not currently have the ability to make tags preferred. The only option right now is "Only visible when used." Would also like visibility to all tags when conducting a search, not just those on items you have access to see.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Minimize Chat Box

I would like to see an enhancement to be able to minimize the chat windows. It's difficult to use the chat boxes as an opportunity for collaboration when they obscure the process mapping window.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration