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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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,

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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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    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

    IBM RPA recorder to map the column headers of a grid view

    Currently, the IBM RPA recorder SAP driver cannot map the column headers of a grid view. We suggest implementing it. In addition, the implementation would benefit multiple customers who provide automation on the SAP.
    about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 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

    Nested toolkit dependency upgrade

    In multi level nesting of toolkits making a change in the leaf toolkit requires an upgrade of all dependency toolkits. The process of doing this is extremely tedious for 2 reasons:1) Each toolkit at each level needs to be opened upgraded and new s...
    over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Future consideration

    Blueworks Live BPMN 2.0 does not export the Diagram Interchange

    Blueworks Live BPMN2 does not export the Diagram Interchange (aka DI aka bpmndi tags ). Other process mapping tools are not able to generate the Process diagram (layout, etc) when the DI is not present. Could the DI be included to the BPMN2 export...
    over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Delivered

    Line breaks in activity text

    For instances like quoting an email address, it would be beneficial to enable Alt+Enter to force a line break in the Activity text. Sometimes spaces will work to present this (Example 2), but I have had instances where Blueworks ignores me after 2...
    about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

    AWS S3 Bucket with Object Lock and in Compliance Mode connected as a Fixed Content Device Storage to CPE, map CPE Indefinite Retention to AWS S3 Legal Hold Flag

    Currently indefinite is not allowed or supported from CPE to AWS S3, the CPE value of 9999-12-20 12AM UTC is sent to S3 and S3 complains that the date value is not allowed as S3 has a maximum value of 100 years in the future for retention date. In...
    about 1 year ago in FileNet Content Manager (CPE) 0 Future consideration

    The ‘select and move’ tool: because it’s a combined tool, it can sometimes create accidental selects/moves of process activities when you are intending to just move around the map

    The ‘select and move’ tool: because it’s a combined tool, it can sometimes create accidental selects/moves of process activities when you are intending to just move around the map
    about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    The ‘select and move’ tool: if you are using this to move around the map and your pointer moves off the map window, and you return it to the map it remains “active” which can disrupt effectively moving around the map (this only applies to really large maps)

    The ‘select and move’ tool: if you are using this to move around the map and your pointer moves off the map window, and you return it to the map it remains “active” which can disrupt effectively moving around the map (this only applies to really l...
    about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

    4. Make axis font size larger, prevent text cut off (wrap text) – especially difficult when zoomed out or exporting a large blueprint to a PDF

    Make axis font size larger, prevent text cut off (wrap text) – especially difficult when zoomed out or exporting a large blueprint to a PDF. Both the PDF and in BWL when you zoom out on a large map. When zoomed out or printed, the font size on the...
    about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

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