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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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Requesting addition of technology symbols to support creation of system and architecture flows.

Requesting addition of technology symbols to support creation of system and architecture flows. Some of the symbols we are seeking to use: firewall, server(s), database(s), computer, processing unit, user input, mobile device, physical building, r...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

On viewer Access "Analyze" functionality should be the available of as due to this the customer is unable to see the details of the KPI, so you are requested to kindly provide the same.

"Analyze" functionality should be available on Viewer access
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Keep activity numbering on when in Analyze Mode

Turning on Activity Numbering is incredibly helpful, especially when communicating with users in building/updating processes. However, as soon as Analyze mode is selected the activity numbering is turned off. Keeping the activity numbering turned ...
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 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...
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Customize Property list at the Account Level not just at the individual user level

We have nearly 3000 Viewer users. The customize property function that was added is great but trying to get the message to 3000 Viewers on how to Customize their properties is difficult. We would like the ability to set customize the property list...
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under consideration

Activity Hover Text

Would like to have a hover text functionality on activities and events that when you hover over them it shows the description, any "problem" added and the value add value selected on that activity. This function should be one that can be turned of...
almost 3 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

Additional information in PDF print file header

I suggest including additional information in PDF header. At the top of each PDF page some blueprint information are already included: process name, unique ID, process link, space and last modified date and time. It will be very useful if name of...
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Multi processes in a space data analysis , Pls add ID at activity level in each "items" "Process items" "Stakeholders" "Systems" "Cycle Time" sheet

Currently when I export space to excel report I would like to compare "items" "Process items" "Stakeholders" "Systems" "Cycle Time" of each processes in space (see in "Example comparison" attachment) but with current excel report separately and ha...
about 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration