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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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Playback to include boundary events

When a playback is created and there's an activity or subprocess with boundary events the playback does not allow stepping through the boundary events. Being able to step through the boundary events during a playback will allow a better insight in...
7 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Moving Text on Gateways, Events and Links

I would like the flexibility to move the external test for gateway, events or links to align with top, bottom, left or right of the item. Currently, the text appears below the item and cannot be moved.
almost 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

Description popup for Participant

Just like popups all over BwL, it would be nice to have a popup with the description for Participant when viewing Process Diagram/Map/etc. This would be helpful when it's necessary to abbreviate Participant names (like System as a Participant).
about 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 5 Functionality already exists

To be able to highlight all activities and add the task type in bulk rather than having to do this individually

This is time consuming having to add the task type to the activity individually, This would benefit all editors, this could work by using the marquee select function to highlight all activities needed.
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

It would be good if the wording of an activity is not obscured when a task type is added, such as 'User Task', 'Decision Task', 'Service Task' etc. The wording of the activity should shift, so that it begins after the task type is displayed.

This would benefit everyone who uses Blueworks, so that they do not need to hover over an activity in order to accurately read what the activity is. It should work by automatically populating the wording of the activity to begin after the task typ...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Custom PDF Header/Footer

Would be nice to specify a personalized message in PDF print output much like custom headers/footers for Word export.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

For email notifications to be provided to the person who has launched a workflow task, if the workflow task is not completed by the task due date

This would be useful to remind the user that a workflow task has not been completed. This would benefit the user in being able to contact the approver of the task and remind them of their overdue task. This could work by IBM Blueworks sending a da...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

KPI information should auto-populate as a sum to higher levels such as from (L4 to L3, L2 and L1) where the L4 process map is linked to.

We need a functionality where if the KPI's are filled for the activities(such as Cycle Time) under a sub-process should be calculated as a total of all the activities and auto-populate as the KPI information for the sub-process including all the a...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

Additional BWL Admin functions

The Admin panel for BWL needs additional capabilities to properly manage users.-There should be a button to send a notification to all users (or a defined subgroup)-There should be a way to define a message for users to see when they log in within...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Writing tags in capital first letters

When adding new tag then first letters of each word are automatically converted to a small writing (B into b). This mechanism is awkward when personal names are used in tags. All other glossary entries are allowed to write in capitalising labels, ...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration