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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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Blueworks live Word Document Export

The export process to word functionality is so much limited that we can't use the generated report for anything, we need to add the following a. Due & Duration of task & decisions (no of months, days, hours etc.) b. Total No. of task &...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Add ablitly to connect all data exports within Blueworks Live

Citi is transitioning our current process mapping inventory into Blueworks. Today we have the capability outside of Blueworks to view all of our map meta data in one file. With the current map data export options in Blueworks (Excel, BPMN, XDPL) t...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 8 Future consideration

Hybrid Defined Color Legend

We like the recent enhancement to define multiple color legends for the BWL account; however, we'd like to have a hybrid option. We'd like to be able to define a few colors but the rest of the colors are still available to be used in the map AND m...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Include Activity/Gateway in the data export

Current map data exports do not allow user identify Activity/Gateway color. Adding this feature would assist the user to easily identify specific Legend items within the map data export.
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Vertical Text in Tables

Thankyou for all the lastest weeks in Blueworks Live, I have just used the "adding a table feature" in my Workflow Documentation. Both tables were quite large and it would have helped if I could have positioned a text heading vertically. At the mo...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

To capture emotions in BWL

To have emotions (Emoji Symbols) in Blueworks Live for Customer Journey Maps and it should be freely place able anywhere in the map.
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Show last 6 chars of OAUTH token ID in Admin->Account Information -> Blueworks Live API page

When managing OAUTH tokens, the admin can only see the name and date of the token. It would be very helpful if the last 6(?) characters of the token ID was displayed so that an unambiguous ID of a specific token can be made
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

BWL Process App Notification Platform

Enhance Process App work notifications to include MS Teams and Slack messages rather than just emails to notify users of assigned work from a Process App checklist or workflow.
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Blueprint Work History visible for everybody

Only the account Admin can see the Work History of all Blueprints, while the Editor can only see the Work History of these Blueprints that contain Processes launched by him. It there are Processes launched by any other Editor, in the Work History ...
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Mapping suppliers to inputs

It would be useful to have suppliers mapped to inputs and customers to outputs. As it is currently, these are completely separate entities, while in reality these are dependent of one another. Let's say we have the following defined for an activit...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration