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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:

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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,

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  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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MS Word Export Improvements

MS Word export has several improvement opportunities which I will consolidate into this ticket as follows: 1) Decision Model and Matrix option to include this within the exported MS Word documentation 2) Legend needs to be captured with included m...
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 5 Not under consideration

Rearrange linked items (policies, processes, etc.) by dragging and placing in the correct order

Rearranging linked items by dragging would save time. For example, you have an activity box that links to 10 processes and those processes are arranged alphabetically to find them easily. If you add a new process and then realphabetize, you would ...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Inset Image option in Process(white) Space

In BWL we can add images in Documentation or attachments only. Now we have requirements to add/insert any image in the white space. It will be helpful when we can insert any image in the process diagram space.
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 6 Not under consideration

Export Search Results

I would like to be able to export the search result options from a process and a space search. Right now the search results are not exportable. I have to manually access each record to get what I need. I'd like to be able to key in a search term t...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

Add 'Item Type' data when exporting to Excel

When exporting data to Excel parameter 'Item Type' is missing at sheets 'Documentation' and 'Text Annotations'. Because the data 'Item Name' already exists in those sheets it would be very helpful for further analysis to add also the missing param...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

When showing connections that run over each other or meet at corners, it would be easier to follow the path of the connection if the lines at the corners were rounded.

To improve the comprehensibility of the scheme.
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Customize User Privacy Agreement

Allow customization of the User Privacy Agreement to brand it with a company logo &/or text that will notify users the Privacy Agreement is not a phishing scam but is in fact valid and ok for them to accept. Phishing attempts are a big focus ...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

Function to arrange "References" in policies

We are linking policies to most of our processes to attach necessary documents (for example, mail templates) so that our coworkers can quickly find them when executing the process. Unfortunately there is no function to arrange the documents. The d...
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Ability to assign the review/approval tasks to Viewers without any approval or completion action requiring from them

On the process blueprint review, we can assign the tasks to Editors but there is no way to assign the tasks to Viewers. We need a feature where a task can be sent to a Viewer user with or without giving them any access to complete, approve or reje...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Allow User to cache SSO log in for a set amount of days

User mostly shares processes with people that have viewer licenses and they find it to be a waste of time to have to log in every single time they open a link. If the SSO settings could be changed to allow a user to open a process without logging ...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration