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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).


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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:

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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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Be able to move property values up and down in the list on the Details window

Would like to be able to move values within a property on the Details edit window up and down to specify an order. Today the only way to specify and order to the values is to enter them in a specific order. Therefore, if a value needs to be insert...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Allow import and export of IP address ranges to xls

We have many IP address ranges defined, and with the new ones to support Cloudflare it is increasingly difficult to validate, amend and maintain them. Please provide the ability to import or export ip address ranges to (1) reduce risk of error in ...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Ability to update custom process properties via APIs

The OpenPages team wants to be able to publish key risk and control information into Blueworks Live using the REST APIs. Only a retrieve API is available for ProcessData.
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Flexibility for a subset of users to build and run Blueworks Live reports on demand without the need for deep knowledge of API exports, including approvals.

Need easier report generation capabilities to support regulatory requirements. This is pretty standard functionality in the Saas space, so customer is hoping the engineers for BWL are already building something like this. Reporting and archiving o...
8 months ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Warn if work is started and work already exists

When a user starts a workflow for a blueprint snapshot warn if there was already a workflow started before.
over 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Import Activity/Task level attributes data to Blueworks Live via data loader functionality

Currently, the metadata or activity/task level details have to be entered manually for each activity which is a manual intense and tedious job making it a big business pain point and they hesitate from doing this exercise. Therefore, it would be m...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

Scheduled job run for artifacts extract such as Spaces, Process blueprint, Task management

Scheduled job run will save time as it would require one time rules configuration by eliminating the repeated manual effort in selecting the spaces/sub-spaces and run report which is time consuming Admins and Users will benefit from this enhanceme...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Filter users on name or email address when removing them from user groups

When removing users from a user group, they are presented alphabetically by 'public' user name. To find a specific user can be very challenging as:- there is no filter capability- there are three lists, alpha sorted by license type.- users can (an...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Meta data fields - Free format text input

There are certain meta data fields in Blueworks which requires users to input free textFor e.g.. Risk Description, Controls etc...These fields are unlikely to be the same on different processes and will start to build up rapidly once we start buil...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Provide BWL API capability to support the export of Metadata that would be used to link BWL Process Diagrams to associated BWL Process Applications

Description: Provide BWL API capability to support the export of Metadata that would be used to link BWL Process Diagrams to associated BWL Process Applications. This Metadata would be included as part of an export that can be fed into another sys...
9 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration