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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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On viewer Access "Analyze" functionality should be the available of as due to this the customer is unable to see the details of the KPI, so you are requested to kindly provide the same.

"Analyze" functionality should be available on Viewer access
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Hierarchical dropdowns for custom fields

We are requesting the implementation of hierarchical drop downs, such that a selection of a 1st level dropdown spawns a 2nd level dropdown based upon the 1st level selection, and then the selection of the 2nd level dropdown spawns a 3rd level drop...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Export Search Results

When any search results are presented, allow user to export those results to an Excel workbook. 1. Perform search (spaces, processes, etc.) 2. Blueworks Live presents results 3. User clicks new "Export Results" button 4. User presented with dialog...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Keep activity numbering on when in Analyze Mode

Turning on Activity Numbering is incredibly helpful, especially when communicating with users in building/updating processes. However, as soon as Analyze mode is selected the activity numbering is turned off. Keeping the activity numbering turned ...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

See the # of items in a Space without having to open the space.

In the Show Space Hierarchy view, the number of items in the space is displayed when you hover over the space name. Would like this same capability when within a Space View, so if the space has sub-spaces you can hover over a sub-space and see the...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Please add flow charting symbols

We need to create System and/or Data flow diagrams. Symbols to create such flow diagrams are not available currently in the tool. Please can you add standard data flow charting symbols (input, processing, output, applications, databases, interface...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Specify the display type when in a Space View

Allow ability to change view of Spaces to be list view, detail view, etc. The view when in a Space today is like a Grid view. In some cases, it would be easier to see things in list view than grid view, especially on different screen sizes. There ...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Allow default view to be set at the account level when a link to a process is provided

Allow selection of which process blueprint view (Discovery Map, Process Diagram, Documentation) will be displayed when a link to a process is defined on Linked Process activities. Example, we have Discovery Maps that are basically an outline of al...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Remove user groups from spaces when the user group is deleted/archived

When a User Group is deleted/archived, they should be removed from any spaces that they had access to. When we remove a user group, the user group shows up with access on spaces they had access to, although they show up grayed out with a little re...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Functionality already exists

Default orientation at process level when a process diagram is opened

Changed the default orientation (where the cursor ends up) to be at the process level, not the first milestone) when a process diagram. Many of our Viewer users become very easily confused when they open a process diagram and the Details and Docs ...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration