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:

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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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

Blueworks Live

    Add a new AI Task type at the activity level, similar to the existing User Task, Service Task, and Robotic Task types.

    BWL shall provide an "AI Task" as a task type at the activity level, alongside the existing User Task, Service Task, and Robotic Task types. The AI Task shall represent activities performed by an AI capability to analyse data, generate content, ex...
    4 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

    Shared component Library

    Currently Activities and gateways can be reused in the shared component library. However, it is critical to add the functionality to allow sub activity objects to be reused. For example if I create an activity that has 10 sub activities, or a "chu...
    10 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    Parent Activity Inheritance

    There should be a functionality that rolls up the data from the object beneath it. For example, if I have a milestone that has 10 activities underneath it and each of those activities are performed by a different system. Blueworks should automatic...
    10 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

    Ability to select and edit multiple activities at once

    There should be functionality that allows you to select multiple objects and edit the details behind them at the same time. Either multiple select activities, add details and it populates the details for all that were selected, or open multiple wi...
    10 days ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

    Additional fields in Glossary

    Currently there are only two, maybe 3 column fields in the glossary. There should be the ability to add additional columns to the glossary terms with more useful information. For example there is only a column for term and one for description, we ...
    4 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

    Ability to change text size

    There should be a capability to adjust text size within activities. In the new modern experience, a lot of text gets cut off
    4 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

    Highlight and select multiple lines of text in an activity

    Should be able to highlight / select multiple lines in the activity ox to edit or delete in the modern experience
    4 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

    Adjusting labels on connectors

    Should be able to move the labels on gateway connectors to make the words align better in the modern experience. I should be able to free form move the text to be on top or bottom of the connector line
    4 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

    Connector User Experience

    Arrows do not auto adjust when dragging activities into a different place in the modern experience. there should be an "align middle" feature that lines activities to center or middle where the arrows would the auto adjust to be straight
    4 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

    Glossary Maintenance

    Should be able to delete multiple items in the glossary at a time. There should be a select option to select multiple glossary values to delete instead of line item by line item. Additionally, If a term is deleted from a process blueprint and is n...
    4 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

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