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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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Setting default tab as account preference

How the activity properties being used depends on how user documents the process. Some users may prefer properties tab, and others may prefer document tab as the primary windows for inputting properties. The default tab for properties window is be...
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

Included decision table in word/pdf/ppt export

It would be good to be include the decision table when exporting a process. This behavior should be able to be toggled on/off using the configuration screen.
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 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...
over 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
almost 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Being able to see full process name

Process names are truncated in spaces and there is no way of seeing the whole name at a glance. It would be great to be able to see the full name
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 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 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...
about 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Customized start page for Viewers

Editors and Contributors can set their preferred page as start page. Please apply this function also to Viewers.
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Model Labels Field length and width adjustment

Customers have requested the field length of 8 for model objects be extended to 12 and field height adjusted a line or two.
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 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...
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under consideration