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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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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...
about 2 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...
over 2 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...
over 2 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...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Set a duration or period of User License

Set a limit how long does a single user will have their access, then if not reviewed and requested for extension, then the access will automatically be revoked.
almost 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Reduced readability for Exclusiv Gateway labels

Response from BWL support: "The only thing you can do is to open a Client Enhancement Request to perhaps make those tag boxes moveable so you can position them."
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Decision models to be model based rather than diagram based

Decision models to be model based rather than diagram based. This means being able to build an underlying decision model with root and sub-decisions, and then being able to drag them onto different diagrams. This should then automatically show the...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

Enhance /scr/api/TaskList API to add Username parameter

Hi, We can use this API resource to get a list of open tasks assigned to the current user and a list of the user's completed tasks. However, we want to be able to retrieve a list of open tasks assigned to any user and a list of any user's complete...
about 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

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
about 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

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...
almost 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under consideration