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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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adding meta data to connectors

it would be great to be able to add some meta data to the connectors that allow is to model better - i.e. if 90% of the volume goes one way and 10% goes another way
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Goals are stuck in edit mode - eeek!

Why is it that the goals are stuck in edit mode? I can edit the Description area in Space Details and then view the text in display mode. However, goals only display in edit mode. It is ideal to see the full text of the goal after entry. I'm not s...
about 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Functionality already exists

Snapshot Locked and Linked Records

Snapshot Enhancements- When creating a snapshot of the model it needs to include a locked and linked copy of the artifact and application records. All linked to the same snapshot for that time period. - Unpublishing Snapshots to be managed by arch...
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under consideration

Admin and User Customizable Library View(s)

The community needs the ability to obtain and share the content in many various library views and a better organized method on the favorites view. For more detailed explanation and examples see the attachment.
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under consideration

User Preferences – Provide user defined settings for activity numbering and space ordering

User Request the ability to order and save their libraries in their account based on numerical values and sort option.
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Not under consideration

Editor User ability to delete other people's comments in the Documentation View

Editor users can deleted other people's comments when viewing the Process Diagram - either in the details pane on the right side or in the Properties dialog box. The Editor user should also be able to delete other people's comments when in the Doc...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Ability to use color coding for activity links - arrows

There are scenarios where the color of an arrow may have some meaning within a process flow. It would be good to allow users to change the color of an arrow linking different tasks within a diagram
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Ability to span an activity across 2 swimlanes

There are some scenarios where an Activity does not necessarily applies to one Participant. In BWL the swimlane is assigned to a participant name, but there are some requirements where an idea could be assigned to 2 type of participants and visual...
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Allow precision values for Custom numeric dropdown

IBM Blueworks live allows users to define a custom numeric property . However there is no specification on the precision of the property . Currently the platform allows users to enter 9 digit long number. We have a business requirement that needs...
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Autogen email

When an admin adds a user to BWL - autogen email puts the original names in the email asking them to contact that individual for issues or if their invitation link has expired. User reaches out for troubleshooting to the "from" admin in the origin...
about 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration