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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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Hyperlinks for Custom Propoerties and instead of attachements

I have users that have begun embedding hyperlinks within the free text documentation fields because there is no place else for friendly formatted hyperlinks to be placed. Please add an option to define a custom property field as a hyperlink and al...
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Planned for future release

AI Enhancements - BPMN guidance

Provide guidance on BPMN best practices in blueprints
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Option to Include Link Location Name On Process Diagram When Printing PDF

When viewing a printed set of linked process diagrams as a PDF, there is no way for the viewer to know what process diagram a linked process activity connects to. Adding a text box to the linked process activity or some other visual cue with the l...
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Warn if work is started and work already exists

When a user starts a workflow for a blueprint snapshot warn if there was already a workflow started before.
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Enhance the blueprint export API, so that API can return result directly in PDF format and there is no need for docx-pdf conversion

Currently our business is facing issues with regards to a Formatting change done in IBM which resulted in broken data with their application.
7 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Is there a way for administrators to disable or restrict the PDF export (Print PDF) option for Viewer users?

Currently, there is no option to disable or restrict the PDF export option for Viewer users in IBM Blueworks Live. This limitation poses a challenge for administrators who need more control over document sharing and export permissions. Are there a...
9 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Admin Ability to Disable File Attachment

Admin users should have the ability to disable file attachment in spaces they control.
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Customization of Blueworks invite basis the Licence type

Ability to customize the content of BWL invite while sending invite to new users basis the licences. Currently we have one common content for all type of Licenses. Instead we can have the predefined template with the customised content basis the l...
almost 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Enhance the Powerpoint process report

PLEASE SEE ENCLOSED DOCUMENT WITH SCREEN CAPTURES The current PowerPoint reporting method has some specific limitations:1/Any sub process with more than 8 activities does not fit onto the slide  2/The process map image is presented in the viewing ...
almost 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under consideration

Ability to send message from throw (send) message event to multiple catch (receive) message events in one or more processes

In order for multiple spawned processes to be "linked" via send/receive message events, send event should be able to send message to multiple receive message events in one or more processes. Basically provide ability for "Multiple" event type.
almost 10 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration