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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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Eliminate the need to have BWL open before clicking on a link to a process blueprint

Currently, you must have BWL open before you can click on a link to a process blueprint that someone sends you. This is an extra step which causes confusion to users who are not aware that you must first have BWL open before you can click on the l...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Functionality already exists

Kirk Clarke

While the Participant of multiple activities can be updated but selecting and moving to a new swimlane, updating other details can only done per individual activity. This is time consuming, repetitive and therefore to the best use of time or user ...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Provide a Open API (aka Swagger File) for ALL BlueWorks Live REST APIs, including get OAuth token

Currently tools such as IBM Business Automation Workflow cannot directly call BWL APIs as there are no accurate and comprehensive Swagger files. This makes it very difficult to build a automated QA process for BWL blueprints.
12 months ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Exporting Marker values

In process modelling, activities can be marked with a Marker (Normal, MultiLoop, SimpleLoop). These values are not exported in Excel, when function Export Space is used. This means that not all process details can be analysed in excel. I suggest t...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

No warning being send to invited user before the invitation expired

When a user received an invitation to join a BWL account he has 72h to "accept" this invitation.However, there is no reminder being send, for instance 24h before expiration
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Ability to add Watermark to process model used to indicate "Draft" or other Admin defined flag

We currently have models that are not complete but need to be Published so Viewers can review them. There is a danger of Viewers searching for models and assuming they're final or current state. Having the ability to turn on a Watermark to display...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Account Management - User Notifications and Stale Notifications

User Notifications - Create automated alerts about users not logging into the system for a certain period of time Stale Notifications - Create automated alerts about Blueprints that have not been updated in a set amount of time Business case - As ...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Don't allow Process Diagrams to have the same name within the same space

I am requesting that Blueworks Live make a change so that it does not allow users to create spaces with the same name. When a user tries to create a space with a name that already exists a message should pop up saying that a space with that name a...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Activity Type Icon overlaps activity label

When adding an Activity Type Icon to an Activity Box it can overlap activity labels.
about 7 years 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 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration