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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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Search results: Blueworks Live

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Process diagram with meta data

A view of the process blueprint as a 'Discovery Map' or 'Process Diagram' including all metadata associated with each process step. Ability to view the map and its meta data in a pictural form with linkages to details.
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration
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Ageing Report

Merged
An overview of maps including the last update date and time to help assess the aging of the maps. 1. Creation, Publish & Last update date for maps in BWL 2. Overview of blueprints which are more than 3/6/9/12 months from last update. 3. Highli...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Ageing Report

An overview of maps including the last update date and time to help assess the aging of the maps. 1. Creation, Publish & Last update date for maps in BWL 2. Overview of blueprints which are more than 3/6/9/12 months from last update. 3. Highli...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 4 Not under consideration

Reuse Attachements

When adding attachments to an Activity box, the attachment is stored in File Management. If someone wants to associate that same attachment to another Activity box then they must upload and reattach the same document again. Instead, what should ha...
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

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 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Word-Wrap Participants in Swim Lanes

Long participant names get truncated in screen views of a process map and are fully presented in printouts. For printouts, it creates challenges because the swimlane height is expanded even if it is only one activity deep. We would like it to word...
almost 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Allow Viewers to Comment on Discovery Maps and Process Diagrams

Why is it Useful: This allows the Viewer community which only have Viewer Licenses to collaborate on Discovery Maps and Process Diagrams. This is an essential part of the mainstream process mapping, getting customer input and consensus. Who would ...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under 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...
about 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Keep Comment Notifications on Process Maps Until Deleted

Keep the notification bubble with the number of comments on an activity within the process map until the comments are deleted. Currently that number and notification go away after viewing the comment. This causes comments to be left in the process...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Delivered

KPI information should auto-populate as a sum to higher levels such as from (L4 to L3, L2 and L1) where the L4 process map is linked to.

We need a functionality where if the KPI's are filled for the activities(such as Cycle Time) under a sub-process should be calculated as a total of all the activities and auto-populate as the KPI information for the sub-process including all the a...
about 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration