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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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Search results: Blueworks Live

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Process Owner Assignment & Reporting

BWL is a Business process mapping Software. best Practice is that every Process should have a Business Owner. This can be assigned at the header level (the 'i' icon next to the process name). However, there is no easy way for Process Owners to fin...
4 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Needs more information

Ability to Add Custom Templates

As Blueworks is a tool that is used across our company, different departments projects are mapped from a specific view point or with a specific focus on how the Customer interacts with the process, or how a System functions etc. This leads to diff...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

AI Enhancements - Process Classification Framework connection and guidance

AI Enhancements - Process Classification Framework connection and guidance, where our process maps fit into the framework we have in place
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 5 Under review
3 MERGED

Publish/ Unpublish Status overview of maps

Merged
Status of the blueprints within a workspace. Example : Total Blueprints - 10, Published - 7, Unpublished - 3. Provide list of maps which are published and unpublished in the BWL.
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Publish/ Unpublish Status overview of maps

Status of the blueprints within a workspace. Example : Total Blueprints - 10, Published - 7, Unpublished - 3. Provide list of maps which are published and unpublished in the BWL.
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

In the Glossary report, we need the field "Where Used" Added

In the glossary report that can be exported to excel, there is no field called "Where Used" that shows each map where the glossary term appears. It is available in the view but not available in the excel export. The excel report is essentially use...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration
9 MERGED

Restricting Publisihng Until Approved through Approval Workflow

Merged
Within BWL, there are approval workflows in place, but they simply do not restrict anything. For instance, it is a very common business case to require an approval from an assigned user before anyone can Publish a process map. The approval process...
over 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Delivered

Allow editing common values of multiple shapes at one time

Allow the selection of multiple shapes and edit them all at the same time. Possible edits include Participants, Other details, Color, Hide in Map, Type (for similar shapes), deletion, etc. This could be incorporated with RFE 90401 to pull multiple...
almost 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Planned for future release

Enhance Viewer functionality

Currently In Blueworks live Viewers do not have the following functionality 1. Not able to export process maps as excel file( from folder level or from process) 2. Not able to do word export of the process maps 3. Details pane does not show meta d...
about 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Selection fields added to export

When exporting information from spaces/maps you can do this in different formats which have varying levels of information depending on the way it is exported (e.g. word document exports process information all meta data etc, whereas powerpoint doe...
over 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration